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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] doc lint: lint and fix missing "GIT" end sections
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 10:53:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqk0prmafq.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr1jzn5j5.fsf@gitster.g> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Sat, 27 Mar 2021 23:42:06 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Lint for and fix the three manual pages that were missing the standard
>> "Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite" end section.
>>
>> We only do this for the man[157] section documents (we don't have
>> anything outside those sections), not files to be included,
>> howto *.txt files etc.
>
> OK.  Alternatively we could drop the footer from all pages.  IIRC,
> we used to have another footer section to credit primary authors,
> which we dropped years ago.  I doubt "git-foo is part of git suite"
> is something worth repeating over and over.
>
> Thanks.

Having said that, making sure all pages consistently have them is
fine, too.  It is just the repetition, even though my eyes have
learned to take it as perfectly normal state of affairs, did not
seem to be adding that much value.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-28 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-26 10:36 [PATCH 0/5] small doc make and lint fixes Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-26 10:36 ` [PATCH 1/5] Documentation/Makefile: make $(wildcard howto/*.txt) a var Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-28  6:14   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-26 10:36 ` [PATCH 2/5] Documentation/Makefile: make $(wildcard <doc deps>) " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-28  6:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-26 10:36 ` [PATCH 3/5] doc lint: Perl "strict" and "warnings" in lint-gitlink.perl Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-28  6:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-26 10:36 ` [PATCH 4/5] doc lint: fix bugs in, simplify and improve lint script Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-26 11:00   ` Jeff King
2021-03-28  1:35     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-26 12:48   ` Philip Oakley
2021-03-28  1:34     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-28  6:38   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-26 10:36 ` [PATCH 5/5] doc lint: lint and fix missing "GIT" end sections Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-26 11:04   ` Jeff King
2021-03-26 15:32     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-27  9:50       ` Jeff King
2021-03-28  6:42   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-28 17:53     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-04-09 11:49       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-10  4:14         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-26 11:06 ` [PATCH 0/5] small doc make and lint fixes Jeff King
2021-03-26 15:18   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-27  9:48     ` Jeff King
2021-04-09 15:02 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-09 15:02   ` [PATCH v2 1/7] Documentation/Makefile: make $(wildcard howto/*.txt) a var Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-09 15:02   ` [PATCH v2 2/7] Documentation/Makefile: make doc.dep dependencies a variable again Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-09 15:02   ` [PATCH v2 3/7] doc lint: Perl "strict" and "warnings" in lint-gitlink.perl Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-09 15:02   ` [PATCH v2 4/7] doc lint: fix bugs in, simplify and improve lint script Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-09 15:02   ` [PATCH v2 5/7] doc lint: lint and fix missing "GIT" end sections Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-09 15:02   ` [PATCH v2 6/7] doc lint: lint relative section order Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-09 15:02   ` [PATCH v2 7/7] docs: fix linting issues due to incorrect " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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