Merge branch 'jk/doc-credits' of git://github.com/peff/git

* 'jk/doc-credits' of git://github.com/peff/git:
  docs: point git.txt author credits to git-scm.com
  doc: add missing git footers
  doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages

Documentation/git-add.txt

@@ -378,14 +378,6 @@ linkgit:git-mv[1]
 linkgit:git-commit[1]
 linkgit:git-update-index[1]
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-am.txt

@@ -189,15 +189,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-apply[1].
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-annotate.txt

@@ -27,10 +27,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-blame[1]
 
-AUTHOR
-------
-Written by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-apply.txt

@@ -246,20 +246,10 @@ If `--index` is not specified, then the submodule commits in the patch
 are ignored and only the absence or presence of the corresponding
 subdirectory is checked and (if possible) updated.
 
-
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-am[1].
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-archimport.txt

@@ -107,14 +107,6 @@ OPTIONS
 	Archive/branch identifier in a format that `tla log` understands.
 
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Martin Langhoff <martin@laptop.org>.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano, Martin Langhoff and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-archive.txt

@@ -153,14 +153,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:gitattributes[5]
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-bisect.txt

@@ -322,14 +322,6 @@ $ git bisect run sh -c "make || exit 125; ~/check_test_case.sh"
 +
 Does the same as the previous example, but on a single line.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
--------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 link:git-bisect-lk2009.html[Fighting regressions with git bisect],

Documentation/git-blame.txt

@@ -198,10 +198,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-annotate[1]
 
-AUTHOR
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-branch.txt

@@ -232,14 +232,6 @@ linkgit:git-remote[1],
 link:user-manual.html#what-is-a-branch[``Understanding history: What is
 a branch?''] in the Git User's Manual.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-bundle.txt

@@ -201,10 +201,6 @@ You can also see what references it offers:
 $ git ls-remote mybundle
 ----------------
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-cat-file.txt

@@ -100,14 +100,6 @@ for each object specified on stdin that does not exist in the repository:
 <object> SP missing LF
 ------------
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-check-attr.txt

@@ -86,15 +86,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:gitattributes[5].
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by James Bowes.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt

@@ -172,18 +172,6 @@ $ git checkout-index --prefix=.merged- Makefile
 This will check out the currently cached copy of `Makefile`
 into the file `.merged-Makefile`.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves,
-Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-checkout.txt

@@ -422,15 +422,6 @@ $ edit frotz
 $ git add frotz
 ------------
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt

@@ -171,14 +171,6 @@ the working tree.
 spending extra time to avoid mistakes based on incorrectly matching
 context lines.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-revert[1]

Documentation/git-cherry.txt

@@ -63,14 +63,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-patch-id[1]
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-citool.txt

@@ -19,14 +19,6 @@ to the less interactive 'git commit' program.
 'git citool' is actually a standard alias for `git gui citool`.
 See linkgit:git-gui[1] for more details.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-clean.txt

@@ -61,12 +61,6 @@ OPTIONS
 	Remove only files ignored by git.  This may be useful to rebuild
 	everything from scratch, but keep manually created files.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
-
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-clone.txt

@@ -236,17 +236,6 @@ $ git clone --bare -l -s /pub/scm/.../torvalds/linux-2.6.git \
     /pub/scm/.../me/subsys-2.6.git
 ------------
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt

@@ -93,15 +93,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-write-tree[1]
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-commit.txt

@@ -397,12 +397,6 @@ linkgit:git-mv[1],
 linkgit:git-merge[1],
 linkgit:git-commit-tree[1]
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
-Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-config.txt

@@ -336,15 +336,6 @@ echo "${WS}your whitespace color or blue reverse${RESET}"
 
 include::config.txt[]
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Johannes Schindelin, Petr Baudis and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-count-objects.txt

@@ -25,15 +25,6 @@ OPTIONS
 	and number of objects that can be removed by running
 	`git prune-packed`.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt

@@ -112,14 +112,6 @@ $ cd ~/project_cvs_checkout
 $ git cherry cvshead myhead | sed -n 's/^+ //p' | xargs -l1 git cvsexportcommit -c -p -v
 ------------
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Martin Langhoff <martin@laptop.org> and others.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Martin Langhoff <martin@laptop.org> and others.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt

@@ -217,15 +217,6 @@ more stable in practice:
 * cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://cvs2svn.tigris.org`
 * parsecvs, `http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~keithp/parsecvs`
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>, with help from
-various participants of the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt

@@ -391,22 +391,6 @@ Dependencies
 ------------
 'git-cvsserver' depends on DBD::SQLite.
 
-Copyright and Authors
----------------------
-
-This program is copyright The Open University UK - 2006.
-
-Authors:
-
-- Martyn Smith    <martyn@catalyst.net.nz>
-- Martin Langhoff <martin@laptop.org>
-
-with ideas and patches from participants of the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Martyn Smith <martyn@catalyst.net.nz>, Martin Langhoff <martin@laptop.org>, and Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-daemon.txt

@@ -279,17 +279,6 @@ that connected to it, if the IP address is available. REMOTE_ADDR will
 be available in the environment of hooks called when
 services are performed.
 
-
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
-<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-describe.txt

@@ -156,17 +156,6 @@ selected and output.  Here fewest commits different is defined as
 the number of commits which would be shown by `git log tag..input`
 will be the smallest number of commits possible.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, but somewhat
-butchered by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>.  Later significantly
-updated by Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-diff-files.txt

@@ -46,15 +46,6 @@ omit diff output for unmerged entries and just show "Unmerged".
 
 include::diff-format.txt[]
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-diff-index.txt

@@ -116,15 +116,6 @@ tell which file is in which state, since the "has been updated" ones
 show a valid sha1, and the "not in sync with the index" ones will
 always have the special all-zero sha1.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt

@@ -162,15 +162,6 @@ in case you care).
 
 include::diff-format.txt[]
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-diff.txt

@@ -174,14 +174,6 @@ linkgit:gitdiffcore[7],
 linkgit:git-format-patch[1],
 linkgit:git-apply[1]
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-difftool.txt

@@ -109,15 +109,6 @@ linkgit:git-mergetool[1]::
 linkgit:git-config[1]::
 	 Get and set repository or global options
 
-
-AUTHOR
-------
-Written by David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Aguilar and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-fast-export.txt

@@ -135,15 +135,6 @@ Since 'git fast-import' cannot tag trees, you will not be
 able to export the linux-2.6.git repository completely, as it contains
 a tag referencing a tree instead of a commit.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Johannes E. Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Johannes E. Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-fast-import.txt

@@ -1350,14 +1350,6 @@ operator can use this facility to peek at the objects and refs from an
 import in progress, at the cost of some added running time and worse
 compression.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt

@@ -90,15 +90,6 @@ OPTIONS
 	$GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master").  When
 	unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-fetch.txt

@@ -80,16 +80,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-pull[1]
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
-Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
--------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt

@@ -405,16 +405,6 @@ warned.
   (or if your git-gc is not new enough to support arguments to
   `\--prune`, use `git repack -ad; git prune` instead).
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Petr "Pasky" Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>,
-and the git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Petr Baudis and the git list.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt

@@ -67,15 +67,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-merge[1]
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-format-patch.txt

@@ -278,15 +278,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-am[1], linkgit:git-send-email[1]
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-fsck-objects.txt

@@ -15,3 +15,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 
 This is a synonym for linkgit:git-fsck[1].  Please refer to the
 documentation of that command.
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-fsck.txt

@@ -140,14 +140,6 @@ GIT_INDEX_FILE::
 GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES::
 	used to specify additional object database roots (usually unset)
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-gc.txt

@@ -151,10 +151,6 @@ linkgit:git-reflog[1]
 linkgit:git-repack[1]
 linkgit:git-rerere[1]
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-get-tar-commit-id.txt

@@ -22,15 +22,6 @@ return code of 1.  This can happen if <tarfile> had not been created
 using 'git archive' or if the first parameter of 'git archive' had been
 a tree ID instead of a commit ID or tag.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-grep.txt

@@ -203,16 +203,6 @@ git grep --all-match -e NODE -e Unexpected::
 	Looks for a line that has `NODE` or `Unexpected` in
 	files that have lines that match both.
 
-Author
-------
-Originally written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, later
-revamped by Junio C Hamano.
-
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-gui.txt

@@ -121,14 +121,6 @@ or
 
 or browsed online at http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/[].
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-hash-object.txt

@@ -53,14 +53,6 @@ OPTIONS
 	conversion. If the file is read from standard input then this
 	is always implied, unless the --path option is given.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-help.txt

@@ -171,17 +171,6 @@ $ git config --global web.browser firefox
 as they are probably more user specific than repository specific.
 See linkgit:git-config[1] for more information about this.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and the git-list
-<git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-Initial documentation was part of the linkgit:git[1] man page.
-Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> extracted and rewrote it a
-little. Maintenance is done by the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt

@@ -43,14 +43,6 @@ commit-id::
 	Verify that everything reachable from target is fetched.  Used after
 	an earlier fetch is interrupted.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-http-push.txt

@@ -91,15 +91,6 @@ With '--force', the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs.
 Optionally, a <ref> parameter can be prefixed with a plus '+' sign
 to disable the fast-forward check only on that ref.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Nick Hengeveld <nickh@reactrix.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Nick Hengeveld
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-imap-send.txt

@@ -124,14 +124,6 @@ Thunderbird in particular is known to be problematic.  Thunderbird
 users may wish to visit this web page for more information:
   http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_-_Thunderbird#Completely_plain_email
 
-Author
-------
-Derived from isync 1.0.1 by Mike McCormack.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Mike McCormack
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-index-pack.txt

@@ -85,15 +85,6 @@ new .keep file was successfully created. This is useful to remove a
 .keep file used as a lock to prevent the race with 'git repack'
 mentioned above.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
-
-Documentation
--------------
-Documentation by Sergey Vlasov
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-init-db.txt

@@ -16,3 +16,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 
 This is a synonym for linkgit:git-init[1].  Please refer to the
 documentation of that command.
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-init.txt

@@ -134,15 +134,6 @@ $ git add .     <2>
 <1> prepare /path/to/my/codebase/.git directory
 <2> add all existing file to the index
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-instaweb.txt

@@ -84,14 +84,6 @@ If the configuration variable 'instaweb.browser' is not set,
 'web.browser' will be used instead if it is defined. See
 linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1] for more information about this.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-log.txt

@@ -181,14 +181,6 @@ This setting can be disabled by the `--no-standard-notes` option,
 overridden by the 'GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF' environment variable,
 and supplemented by the `--show-notes` option.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-lost-found.txt

@@ -67,15 +67,6 @@ $ git rev-parse not-lost-anymore
 1ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6
 ------------
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-ls-files.txt

@@ -209,15 +209,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-read-tree[1], linkgit:gitignore[5]
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano, Josh Triplett, and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt

@@ -67,10 +67,6 @@ EXAMPLES
 	c5db5456ae3b0873fc659c19fafdde22313cc441	refs/tags/v0.99.2
 	7ceca275d047c90c0c7d5afb13ab97efdf51bd6e	refs/tags/v0.99.3
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt

@@ -95,18 +95,6 @@ Object size identified by <object> is given in bytes, and right-justified
 with minimum width of 7 characters.  Object size is given only for blobs
 (file) entries; for other entries `-` character is used in place of size.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
-Completely rewritten from scratch by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
-another major rewrite by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list
-<git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt

@@ -80,17 +80,6 @@ This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
 <patch>::
 	The patch extracted from e-mail.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
-Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt

@@ -46,16 +46,6 @@ OPTIONS
 --keep-cr::
 	Do not remove `\r` from lines ending with `\r\n`.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-and Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-merge-base.txt

@@ -102,14 +102,6 @@ both '1' and '2' are merge-bases of A and B.  Neither one is better than
 the other (both are 'best' merge bases).  When the `--all` option is not given,
 it is unspecified which best one is output.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 See also
 --------
 linkgit:git-rev-list[1],

Documentation/git-merge-file.txt

@@ -86,17 +86,6 @@ git merge-file -L a -L b -L c tmp/a123 tmp/b234 tmp/c345::
 	merges tmp/a123 and tmp/c345 with the base tmp/b234, but uses labels
 	`a` and `c` instead of `tmp/a123` and `tmp/c345`.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
-
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Johannes Schindelin and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
-with parts copied from the original documentation of RCS 'merge'.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-merge-index.txt

@@ -73,15 +73,6 @@ merge once anything has returned an error (i.e., `cat` returned an error
 for the AA file, because it didn't exist in the original, and thus
 'git merge-index' didn't even try to merge the MM thing).
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-One-shot merge by Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-merge-one-file.txt

@@ -15,15 +15,6 @@ DESCRIPTION
 This is the standard helper program to use with 'git merge-index'
 to resolve a merge after the trivial merge done with 'git read-tree -m'.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
-Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt

@@ -23,14 +23,6 @@ merge results outside of the index, and stuff the results back into the
 index.  For this reason, the output from the command omits
 entries that match the <branch1> tree.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-merge.txt

@@ -312,15 +312,6 @@ linkgit:git-diff[1], linkgit:git-ls-files[1],
 linkgit:git-add[1], linkgit:git-rm[1],
 linkgit:git-mergetool[1]
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-mergetool--lib.txt

@@ -41,14 +41,6 @@ run_merge_tool::
 	'$MERGED', '$LOCAL', '$REMOTE', and '$BASE' must be defined
 	for use by the merge tool.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Aguilar and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-mergetool.txt

@@ -82,14 +82,6 @@ Setting the `mergetool.keepBackup` configuration variable to `false`
 causes `git mergetool` to automatically remove the backup as files
 are successfully merged.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Theodore Y Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Theodore Y Ts'o.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-mktag.txt

@@ -32,15 +32,6 @@ exists, is separated by a blank line from the header.  The
 message part may contain a signature that git itself doesn't
 care about, but that can be verified with gpg.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-mktree.txt

@@ -34,14 +34,6 @@ OPTIONS
 	optional.  Note - if the '-z' option is used, lines are terminated
 	with NUL.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-mv.txt

@@ -39,17 +39,6 @@ OPTIONS
 --dry-run::
 	Do nothing; only show what would happen
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-Rewritten by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
-Move functionality added by Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-name-rev.txt

@@ -70,15 +70,6 @@ Another nice thing you can do is:
 % git log | git name-rev --stdin
 ------------
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Johannes Schindelin.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt

@@ -219,15 +219,6 @@ self-contained. Use `git index-pack --fix-thin`
 	With this option, parents that are hidden by grafts are packed
 	nevertheless.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
--------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano
-
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-rev-list[1]

Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt

@@ -38,14 +38,6 @@ OPTIONS
 --verbose::
 	Outputs some statistics to stderr. Has a small performance penalty.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
-
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]

Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt

@@ -56,11 +56,6 @@ a repository with many branches of historical interests.
 The command usually removes loose refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs`
 hierarchy after packing them.  This option tells it not to.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-parse-remote.txt

@@ -17,14 +17,6 @@ routines to parse files under $GIT_DIR/remotes/ and
 $GIT_DIR/branches/ and configuration variables that are related
 to fetching, pulling and pushing.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-patch-id.txt

@@ -29,14 +29,6 @@ OPTIONS
 <patch>::
 	The diff to create the ID of.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-peek-remote.txt

@@ -37,14 +37,6 @@ OPTIONS
 	The repository to sync from.
 
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-prune-packed.txt

@@ -36,14 +36,6 @@ OPTIONS
 --quiet::
 	Squelch the progress indicator.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
-
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]

Documentation/git-prune.txt

@@ -78,14 +78,6 @@ linkgit:git-fsck[1],
 linkgit:git-gc[1],
 linkgit:git-reflog[1]
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-pull.txt

@@ -224,18 +224,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-fetch[1], linkgit:git-merge[1], linkgit:git-config[1]
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-and Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Jon Loeliger,
-David Greaves,
-Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-push.txt

@@ -406,16 +406,6 @@ Commits A and B would no longer belong to a branch with a symbolic name,
 and so would be unreachable.  As such, these commits would be removed by
 a `git gc` command on the origin repository.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, later rewritten in C
-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt

@@ -49,14 +49,6 @@ The default for the patch directory is patches
 or the value of the $QUILT_PATCHES environment
 variable.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Eric Biederman <ebiederm@lnxi.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Eric Biederman <ebiederm@lnxi.com>
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-read-tree.txt

@@ -421,15 +421,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 linkgit:git-write-tree[1]; linkgit:git-ls-files[1];
 linkgit:gitignore[5]
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-rebase.txt

@@ -659,7 +659,6 @@ The ripple effect of a "hard case" recovery is especially bad:
 'everyone' downstream from 'topic' will now have to perform a "hard
 case" recovery too!
 
-
 BUGS
 ----
 The todo list presented by `--preserve-merges --interactive` does not
@@ -682,15 +681,6 @@ by moving the "pick 4" line will result in the following history:
 1 --- 2 --- 4 --- 5
 ------------
 
-Authors
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and
-Johannes E. Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt

@@ -151,15 +151,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-send-pack[1]
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-reflog.txt

@@ -90,14 +90,6 @@ them.
 --verbose::
 	Print extra information on screen.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-relink.txt

@@ -24,14 +24,6 @@ OPTIONS
 <dir>::
 	Directories containing a .git/objects/ subdirectory.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt

@@ -239,10 +239,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-remote[1]
 
-Documentation
--------------
-Documentation by Daniel Barkalow and Ilari Liusvaara
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-remote.txt

@@ -214,16 +214,6 @@ linkgit:git-fetch[1]
 linkgit:git-branch[1]
 linkgit:git-config[1]
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio Hamano
-
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by J. Bruce Fields and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-repack.txt

@@ -123,15 +123,6 @@ need to set the configuration variable `repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset` to
 is unaffected by this option as the conversion is performed on the fly
 as needed in that case.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
-
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]

Documentation/git-replace.txt

@@ -80,17 +80,6 @@ linkgit:git-tag[1]
 linkgit:git-branch[1]
 linkgit:git[1]
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> and Junio C
-Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, based on 'git tag' by Kristian Hogsberg
-<krh@redhat.com> and Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> and the
-git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>, based on 'git tag' documentation.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-repo-config.txt

@@ -16,3 +16,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 
 This is a synonym for linkgit:git-config[1].  Please refer to the
 documentation of that command.
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-request-pull.txt

@@ -29,14 +29,6 @@ OPTIONS
 <end>::
 	Commit to end at; defaults to HEAD.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> and Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-rerere.txt

@@ -205,11 +205,6 @@ would conflict the same way as the test merge you resolved earlier.
 'git rerere' will be run by 'git rebase' to help you resolve this
 conflict.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-reset.txt

@@ -397,15 +397,6 @@ entries:
 
 X means any state and U means an unmerged index.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-rev-list.txt

@@ -105,16 +105,6 @@ include::rev-list-options.txt[]
 
 include::pretty-formats.txt[]
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano, Jonas Fonseca
-and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt

@@ -308,16 +308,6 @@ $ git rev-parse --default master --verify $REV
 +
 but if $REV is empty, the commit object name from master will be printed.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> .
-Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite