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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r362809 - head/contrib/mandoc
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On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 05:01:00PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> Thats good, but realize the page already contains history that
> reads like:
> 
> HISTORY
>      Part of the functionality of whatis was already provided by the former
>      manwhere utility in 1BSD. The apropos and whatis utilities first ap-
>      peared in 2BSD.  They were rewritten from scratch for OpenBSD 5.6.
> 
>      The -M option and the MANPATH variable first appeared in 4.3BSD; -m in
>      4.3BSD-Reno; -C in 4.4BSD Lite1; and -S and -s in OpenBSD 4.5 for apropos
>      and in OpenBSD 5.6 for whatis.  The options -acfhIKklOTWw appeared in
>      OpenBSD 5.7.
> 
> And further contains:
> 
> AUTHORS
>      Bill Joy wrote manwhere in 1977 and the original BSD apropos and whatis
>      in February 1979. The current version was written by Kristaps Dzonsons
>      <kristaps@bsd.lv> and Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>.
> 
> So the history is rich and complete, do we really need to say when we
> incorporated this into FreeBSD from OpenBSD's mandoc in the manual page?

Ah, in this case, the only thing lacking from the current version is mention
of FreeBSD 11.1.  Sorry for not checking with that before writing my reply.
My main point, however, was that reverse chronological order looks strange.

./danfe