docs: point git.txt author credits to git-scm.com

There is a nice shortlog-ish output of the authors there. We
also point people directly to shortlog, but of course they
might be reading the documentation online or from a binary
package of git.

diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 4323843fe6134f903b07124986cae8c312a6bf2e..5e57f6995a1039112c704565b380cedf9ff5b721 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -747,8 +747,10 @@ Authors
 -------
 Git was started by Linus Torvalds, and is currently maintained by Junio
 C Hamano. Numerous contributions have come from the git mailing list
-<git@vger.kernel.org>. For a complete list of contributors, see
-linkgit:git-shortlog[1] and linkgit:git-blame[1].
+<git@vger.kernel.org>. For a more complete list of contributors, see
+http://git-scm.com/about. If you have a clone of git.git itself, the
+output of linkgit:git-shortlog[1] and linkgit:git-blame[1] can show you
+the authors for specific parts of the project.
 
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