* AUTHORS: Remove unnecessary information. Just list the

principal authors.
* THANKS: Remove info duplicated from AUTHORS.

SCALAR(0x82892dc)

SCALAR(0x8279918)

SCALAR(0x8289444)

stripping and name suffix normalization.

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 30c8d56ce63343f83447cc6f3cc590a7bb2dd87f..5a58416f87e2fe4f6a0327a1445f0a3fedb98632 100644 (file)
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -1,34 +1,15 @@
 Authors of GNU tar.
 
-The following contributions warranted legal paper exchanges with the
-Free Software Foundation.  Also see files ChangeLog and THANKS.
-
-TAR     Sergey Poznyakoff 2003-10
-Assigns his past and future changes.
-
-TAR    Paul Eggert     2000-10
-Assigns his past and future changes.
-
-TAR     Jay Fenlason
-Assigns his changes.
-
-TAR     Richard E Salz          1993-03-11
-Disclaims changes to getdate.y.
-
-TAR MANUAL (?) Amy Gorin       (US 1963)       1995-01-10
-Assigns the Tar Manual.
-
-TAR    Francois Pinard Canada 1949     1996-02-01
-Assigns past and future changes.
-
-TAR    Melissa Weisshaus       US 1966 1997-04-09
-Assigns changes to the manual and future changes.
-melissa@gnu.ai.mit.edu
-
-TAR    Thomas Michael Innis Bushnell   US 1967 1997-04-09
-Assigns changes.
-thomas@gnu.ai.mit.edu
-
-TAR    Thomas Michael Innis Bushnell   US 1967 1997-04-09
-Assigns changes to manual.
-thomas@gnu.ai.mit.edu
+Public domain tar was written by John Gilmore, with contributions from
+Henry Spencer, Fred Fish, Ian Darwin, Geoff Collyer, Stan Barber, Guy
+Harris, Dave Brower, Richard Todd, Michael Rendell, Stu Heiss, and
+Rich Salz.
+
+The FSF version, named GNU tar, was derived from public domain tar by
+Jay Fenlason and Joy Kendall.  Amy Gorin and Melissa Weisshaus
+contributed to the manual.  GNU tar has been maintained in turn by
+Thomas Bushnell BSG, François Pinard, Paul Eggert, and Sergey
+Poznyakoff.
+
+Many others have contributed to GNU tar; please see the files THANKS
+and ChangeLog.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 877183c69486b78f745aa7204549835f60fffad5..5d68b789a1ed1ac0e2b07159765d36ff9c9b1174 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2007-09-14  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+       * AUTHORS: Remove unnecessary information.  Just list the
+       principal authors.
+       * THANKS: Remove info duplicated from AUTHORS.
+
 2007-08-25  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
 
        Don't include <getline.h>.  No longer needed.
@@ -44,13 +50,13 @@
 
        * bootstrap (symlink_to_gnulib): Make sure the target directory
        exists and create it if it does not.
-       
+
        * doc/tar.texi: Fix a typo.
 
 2007-06-28  Sergey Poznyakoff  <gray@gnu.org.ua>
 
        * bootstrap: Update for the change of the TP URL
-       
+
 2007-06-27  Sergey Poznyakoff  <gray@gnu.org.ua>
 
         Relicense under GPLv3
@@ -72,7 +78,7 @@
        * doc/Makefile.am (tar_TEXINFOS): Add tar-snapshot-edit.texi
        * doc/tar-snapshot-edit.texi: New file
        * doc/tar.texi (Fixing Snapshot Files): New appendix
-       
+
        * scripts/tar-snapshot-edit: New file
        * tests/extrac07.at: Add back write permissions on dir
 
@@ -92,21 +98,21 @@
 
        * doc/tar.texi (Operation Summary): Restore alphabetical order of
        the options.
-       
+
 2007-06-02  Sergey Poznyakoff  <gray@gnu.org.ua>
 
        Fix bug, introduced on 2007-03-30.
-       
+
        * src/common.h (xform_type): New data type
        (transform_member_name): Last argument is of xform_type type
        All callers updated
 
        * src/extract.c: Update calls to transform_member_name
        * src/list.c (decode_xform): Exempt symbolic links from component
-       stripping and name suffix normalization.  
+       stripping and name suffix normalization.
 
        * tests/extrac07.at: Update
-               
+
 2007-05-30  Sergey Poznyakoff  <gray@gnu.org.ua>
 
        * src/xheader.c (decx): Unknown pax keywords produce a warning,

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 9ad74eb4eb93fce11c0c2dfe53e6b23481cb2204..5c296b28b66d2fc3be0b4b41c7a78a73d33f4d95 100644 (file)
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 GNU tar THANKS file
 
-Public domain tar was written by John Gilmore, with contributions
-from Henry Spencer, Fred Fish, Ian Darwin, Geoff Collyer, Stan Barber,
-Guy Harris, Dave Brower, Richard Todd, Michael Rendell, Stu Heiss and
-Rich $alz.  The FSF version, named GNU tar, was derived from PDTAR by
-Jay Fenlason and Joy Kendall, and was maintained in turn by François
-Pinard, Paul Eggert and Sergey Poznyakoff.
+Please see the AUTHORS file for the list of principal authors.
 
 Many people further contributed to GNU tar by reporting problems,
 suggesting various improvements or submitting actual code.  Here is a