Update man pages #12813

pull murrayn wants to merge 1 commits into bitcoin:master from murrayn:man_pages changing 4 files +355 −870

murrayn commented at 10:25 AM on March 28, 2018: contributor

Update man pages: remove obsolete options, add new ones. Remove excess white space. Alphabetize options.

To view: $ man -l bitcoin-cli.1 etc.
Update man pages. 597146ef3c
fanquake added the label Docs on Mar 28, 2018
in doc/man/bitcoin-cli.1:1 in 597146ef3c
```
   0 | @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
   1 | -.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.47.3.
```
laanwj commented at 10:27 AM on March 28, 2018:

Why did you ignore (and remove) this warning? You shouldn't edit the man pages directly, they're generated automatically with a script before releases. See the release process.

murrayn commented at 10:57 AM on March 28, 2018:

My bad, @laanwj. Thanks for the response, that's good to know. The man pages seemed really out of date with the current state (but not the current release), so I assumed they were generated as a one-off at some point. Will withdraw the PR.

laanwj commented at 11:05 AM on March 28, 2018:

FWIW I completely agree with the intent of this PR, but any improvements to man page generation would have to be scripted, to avoid having to do manual changes every time. There used to be fully manually-maintained man pages but no one really kept them up to date for years, so unless someone is now really enthusiastic in doing that, the scripted approach is preferable.
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