doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages

The point of these sections is generally to:

  1. Give credit where it is due.

  2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
     file bug reports.

But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame.  For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.

So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.

Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 7ec9dab..ee14f74 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -348,7 +348,6 @@ sendemail.confirm::
 	one of 'always', 'never', 'cc', 'compose', or 'auto'. See '--confirm'
 	in the previous section for the meaning of these values.
 
-
 Use gmail as the smtp server
 ----------------------------
 
@@ -363,20 +362,6 @@ Add the following section to the config file:
 Note: the following perl modules are required
       Net::SMTP::SSL, MIME::Base64 and Authen::SASL
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
-
-git-send-email is originally based upon
-send_lots_of_email.pl by Greg Kroah-Hartman.
-
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Ryan Anderson
-
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite