Daniel Leidert wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 26.12.2010, 14:12 -0600 schrieb Jonathan Nieder:
>> Oohara Yuuma wrote:

>>> The manpage of git-commit(1) mentions aut...@example.com in the NOTES
>>> section.  Since it is a fictional address for explaining the --author
>>> option, listing it among the authors of git looks silly.  Please
>>> remove it.
> [snip]
>> Doing so indeed looks silly and it adds no value I can see to the
>> manpage.  Any ideas for suppressing this behavior?
>
> What about disabling the NOTES section via setting the
> man.endnotes.list.enabled parameter to zero.
>
> file:///usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl/reference.html/manpages/man.endnotes.list.enabled.html
>
> Sounds like the easiest solution to me. Would this hurt?

Yes, unfortunately it would hurt.  The manpages use the NOTES section
for cross-references to HTML documentation (e.g., the pointer to the
user manual in git(1)) and for a genuine footnote in git-notes(1).

Thanks for the pointer.  Maybe I can mimick it to add a finer-grained
option that only removes mailto: endnotes.



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