Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:14:21 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Man pages .Dd (was: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 uio.9) Message-ID: <20061130131421.GA74988@rambler-co.ru> In-Reply-To: <20061130123712.GV32700@FreeBSD.org> References: <200611292024.kATKOviH078532@repoman.freebsd.org> <20061129234157.GN42090@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20061130123712.GV32700@FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:37:12PM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:11:57AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > G> On Wednesday, 29 November 2006 at 20:24:57 +0000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > G> > alfred 2006-11-29 20:24:57 UTC > G> > > G> > FreeBSD src repository > G> > > G> > Modified files: > G> > share/man/man9 uio.9 > G> > Log: > G> > Bump .Dd, (9 year jump!) > G> > > G> > Requested by: ru > G> > G> This happened to me too last week. I'm hazy about when, but my > G> understanding has been that in the past .Dd *didn't* automatically get > G> updated. When should it be, when shouldn't it be? If it should be > G> automatic, we should write a macro which sets it from $FreeBSD$. > > No. Only text changes bump .Dd. Style, spelling, wording and markup > do not. > Sometimes even editorial changes are so large that deserve a bump. A common sense actually applies, but for content changes we usually want to bump the date. The comment in the example manpages is supposed to hint about this: .\" $FreeBSD: src/share/examples/mdoc/example.4,v 1.21.2.2 2006/06/05 19:31:57 brueffer Exp $ .\" .\" Note: The date here should be updated whenever a non-trivial .\" change is made to the manual page. .Dd April 1, 2006 > Also, when change is merged the .Dd is left from the original > commit to HEAD, not the date of the MFC. > This is true (most of the time ;-). Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFbtktqRfpzJluFF4RArQ5AJ9QvLKguaZrqVdyi1ZBQn+5w7hcpACdH1c9 1qBJERu4YOuXHk8KvUx9HgQ= =z770 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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