Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add Author and Documentation sections to git-for-each-ref.txt
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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- Mar 13, 2011, 03:02 UTC
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On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:52:23AM +0200, Alexei Sholik wrote:
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> On 11 March 2011 00:37, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote: > > -The documentation for git suite was started by David Greaves > > -<david@dgreaves.com>, and later enhanced greatly by the > > -contributors on the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. > > +Git was started by Linus Torvalds, and is currently maintained by Junio > > +C Hamano. Numerous contributions have come from the git mailing list > > +<git@vger.kernel.org>. For a complete list of contributors, see > > +linkgit:git-shortlog[1] and linkgit:git-blame[1]. > > The last sentence could be a little bit more informative for casual > git-users, something like > For a complete list of contributors, see http://git-scm.com/about, > or (if you are a true geek) linkgit:git-shortlog[1] and > linkgit:git-blame[1].
Yeah, I was tempted to put in explicit instructions but opted to keep it simple. I forgot about the credits listing at git-scm.com, though. Maybe this on top of my other patches?
-- >8 -- Subject: [PATCH] docs: point git.txt author credits to git-scm.com
There is a nice shortlog-ish output of the authors there. We also point people directly to shortlog, but of course they might be reading the documentation online or from a binary package of git.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> --- Documentation/git.txt | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 4323843..5e57f69 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -747,8 +747,10 @@ Authors ------- Git was started by Linus Torvalds, and is currently maintained by Junio C Hamano. Numerous contributions have come from the git mailing list -<git@vger.kernel.org>. For a complete list of contributors, see -linkgit:git-shortlog[1] and linkgit:git-blame[1]. +<git@vger.kernel.org>. For a more complete list of contributors, see +http://git-scm.com/about. If you have a clone of git.git itself, the +output of linkgit:git-shortlog[1] and linkgit:git-blame[1] can show you +the authors for specific parts of the project. Reporting Bugs --------------
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