{"thread":{"id":"35458","subject":"[ANN] Pro Git Reedited - a New Version of the Pro Git Book","startedAt":"2013-12-03T04:29:43Z","lastAt":"2013-12-03T04:29:43Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Jon Forrest"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"231409","messageId":"l7jmo9$1lj$1@ger.gmane.org","threadId":"35458","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANN] Pro Git Reedited - a New Version of the Pro Git Book","fromName":"Jon Forrest","fromEmail":"nobozo@gmail.com","sentAt":"2013-12-03T04:29:43Z","receivedAt":"2013-12-03T04:29:43Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"nobozo@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/37c6a7b57f29b3f35c6a9016537907c52f15bbf98575617dc046bcec6bf06372?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"When I started learning Git, I spent a fair amount of time\nreading Pro Git. I found that it was a 2 steps forward, 1\nstep back experience. By this I mean I’d learn a couple of\nnew things but then I’d either read something I didn’t\nunderstand, or else I’d realize that my previous\nunderstanding was wrong. But, once I developed a better\nunderstanding of Git, I went back to re-read the sections\nthat I didn’t previously understand. I’d almost always think\nto myself that if only this word or that phrase could be\nchanged slightly, the concept would have been much easier to\nunderstand. This happens to me a lot when reading technical\nbooks.\n\nGiven that Scott was generous enough to release Pro Git as a\nfree book with the manuscript sources available at GitHub, I\ndecided to return the favor by doing a complete edit in an\nattempt to improve the areas I had trouble with and to\ngenerally tighten up the text. I’ve fed all these changes\nback to the maintainer of Pro Git via GitHub pull requests.\nHe’s free to decide what he wants to do with them. Meanwhile,\nI've published my own version of this book, which I call\nPro Git Reedited.\n\nThe PDF version of Pro Git Reedited is at\nhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/4awq55350ef235m/progitreedited.en.pdf\nand the source code is at\nhttps://github.com/nobozo/progitreedited\n\nI welcome your feedback. Please send any comments to me at\nnobozo@gmail.com. To make sure I recognize them as\ncomments about this book, please include [PGR] in the\nsubject.\n\nJon Forrest\nnobozo@gmail.com\n"}]}