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Re: Git 1.0 Synopis (Draft v2)

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RARyan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Date
Jul 29, 2005, 08:27 UTC
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On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 03:13:18PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> > Git results from the inspiration and frustration of Linus Torvalds, and
> > the enthusiastic help of over 300 participants on the development
> > mailing list.[1]  It is maintained by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>.
> 
> Please drop the e-mail address here; you mention nobody else's.
> 
> Well, dropping "the current maintainer" information altogether
> might be even better; the above to a casual reader sounds like
> Linus was frustrated and I wrote it for him, which is definitely
> not what we would like to say.  I suspect it still has more code
> by Linus than anybody else (I stopped counting some time ago).

Ok. I was thinking I could add "current" into that description. Or, something like, "Linus has since returned his focus to the kernel, and passed maintainership to ...".

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Ryan Anderson
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  1. Ryan AndersonJul 27, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 27, 2005
  3. Ryan AndersonJul 29, 2005
  4. Git 1.0 Synopis (Draft v3Ryan Anderson, Jul 29, 2005
  5. Johannes SchindelinJul 29, 2005
  6. Sam RavnborgJul 29, 2005

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