[docs] docs: reduce bloat in footers.md (-22%)#20737
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Remove duplicate code block, condense verbose bullet lists to prose, and simplify the TIP block. Reduces file from 186 to 145 lines (~22%) while preserving all essential content. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pull request overview
Updates the “Footer Control” documentation to be more concise by collapsing several bulleted explanations into shorter prose while preserving the same guidance on footer suppression, conditional review footers, and marker-based search.
Changes:
- Condensed the global
footer: falseexplanation into a single paragraph. - Simplified the PR review footer control section into a compact description of supported values and behavior.
- Streamlined the “preserved markers” and search tips sections.
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| - **Visible footer content is omitted** - No AI-generated attribution text appears in the item body | ||
| - **XML markers are preserved** - Hidden workflow-id and tracker-id markers remain for searchability | ||
| - **All safe output types affected** - Applies to create-issue, create-pull-request, create-discussion, update-issue, update-pull-request, update-discussion, and update-release | ||
| When `footer: false` is set, visible attribution text is omitted from item bodies but hidden XML markers (workflow-id, tracker-id) remain for searchability. Applies to all output types: create-issue, create-pull-request, create-discussion, update-issue, update-pull-request, update-discussion, and update-release. |
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Reduces
docs/src/content/docs/reference/footers.mdfrom 186 to 145 lines — a 41-line (22%) reduction while preserving all essential content.Changes Made
File improved:
docs/src/content/docs/reference/footers.mdBloat removed:
Condensed "When
footer: falseis set" bullet list → prose (saved ~3 lines)Removed duplicate code block and condensed PR review values (saved ~20 lines)
Condensed "What's Preserved" numbered list (saved ~8 lines)
Condensed TIP block (saved ~5 lines)
Removed redundant "When to use each approach" bullets (saved ~3 lines)
Preserved content
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