project: for consistency, also separate alias authors with pipes.

[update-copyright.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 2a61b61767ee4fbed0b08a15ea6f1ffa9362336b..5d2e3ff28f3d7e80e56aec807894e016f9e613eb 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -133,11 +133,11 @@ Incomplete VCS history
 Sometimes files have authors or alterations not recorded in a
 project's VCS history.  You can use the ``author-hacks`` section to
 add authors to a file, and the ``year-hacks`` section to adjust the
-files original year.  Author names should be comma-separated.  For
+files original year.  Author names should be pipe-separated.  For
 example::
 
   [author-hacks]
-  path/to/file: John Doe <jdoe@a.com>, Jane Smith <jsmith@b.net>
+  path/to/file: John Doe <jdoe@a.com> | Jane Smith <jsmith@b.net>
 
   [year-hacks]
   path/to/another/file: 2009
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ add an `aliases`` section to your config file, where the option names
 are the canonical name of the ...?.  For example::
 
   [aliases]
-  John Doe <jdoe@a.com>: John Doe, jdoe, J. Doe <j@doe.net>
+  John Doe <jdoe@a.com>: John Doe | jdoe | J. Doe <j@doe.net>
 
 Testing
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