Re: policy for updating mdoc .Dd ?

#1 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 09:27 AM

On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 01:16:27PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Alexander Yurchenko dixit:
>
> >> personally i think it should be made every time a change is made to a
> >> page, no matter how minor. but until we come up with a way of making it
> >> happen automatically, at commit time, i think it's unworkable.
> >
> >but you'll have dozens of free commits like ``bump date for previous''! ;-)
>
> Uh, no. When someone changes the manual page, he can adjust
> the .Dd in the same page within the same commit.
>

right. but who will remember? at the end of the day, someone will need
to run around date bumping...just like grange was talking about.

jmc

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