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Update about-code-owners.md
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No problem at all. Thanks for taking a look. It was just a situation we ran into today at work. Several devs and we all interpreted the doc in the wrong way. Thought this would be the best way of sharing our findings 😅 |
Code of Conduct
What article on docs.github.com is affected?
https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-code-owners
What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?
https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-code-owners#example-of-a-codeowners-file
Additional information
The wording might be interpreted incorrectly by users leading them to believe that statements like
will cause the ownership of that subfolder to revert back to a previously defined owner, when this is not the case.
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