Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 10:22:58 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Gordon Bergling <gbe@freebsd.org> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, rgrimes@freebsd.org, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r362809 - head/contrib/mandoc Message-ID: <202007051722.065HMwE1074449@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20200705074014.GA16505@lion.0xfce3.net>
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> On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 12:06:13AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > 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. > > I have created the following differential and integrated the given feedback. > > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25566 > > If necessary I could revert r362809, but somebody should explicit request it. Consider it so requested. > --Gordon -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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