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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer
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