From: Jeff King Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 03:02:14 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add Author and Documentation sections to git-for-each-ref.txt Message-ID: <20110313030214.GB10452@sigill.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:52:23AM +0200, Alexei Sholik wrote: > On 11 March 2011 00:37, Jeff King wrote: > > -The documentation for git suite was started by David Greaves > > -, and later enhanced greatly by the > > -contributors on the git-list . > > +Git was started by Linus Torvalds, and is currently maintained by Junio > > +C Hamano. Numerous contributions have come from the git mailing list > > +. 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 --- 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 -. For a complete list of contributors, see -linkgit:git-shortlog[1] and linkgit:git-blame[1]. +. 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 -------------- -- 1.7.2.5.18.g3ffb9