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[ANNOUNCE] Revamped Git homepage

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
May 4, 2006, 00:35 UTC
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<20060504003518.GT27689@pasky.or.cz>
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0605030817580.4086@g5.osdl.org>

Dear diary, on Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:30:26PM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said that...

> However, I think the _real_ issue is that Mercurial has a much nicer 
> introductory phase. The standard mercurial web-page is so much more 
> professional and nice to look at than any git page I have ever seen, and 
> let's face it: first looks _do_ count.

Yes, I've already learned earlier that this made quite a bad impression on many people and had the homepage revamp on top of my TODO list for the last few weeks.

Well, here we go, I've just uploaded a new version of the Git homepage; I wonder how you feel about it now.

Obviously, it still feels rather empty and I'm certainly not much of a webmaster myself, but I take patches and pull requests; see http://git.or.cz/community.html for the Git homepage git repository information.

I've borrowed Jonas Fonseca's ELinks homepage design first, but the contents ended up almost entirely rewritten as well (except the Related Tools section, which stayed mostly as it was). Git now poses as a real version control system and the plumbing stuff is mentioned only in the bottom paragraphs. ;-)

BTW, if anyone is into CSS and stuff, after half an hour of beating it I couldn't manage to make the top bar look right - everything is shifted slightly to the top. :/

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Right now I am having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time.  I think
I have forgotten this before.
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Message 35 of 37 in “[ANNOUNCE] Git wiki”
  1. Petr BaudisMay 2, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2006
  3. Paolo CiarrocchiMay 3, 2006
  4. Petr BaudisMay 3, 2006
  5. Paolo CiarrocchiMay 3, 2006
  6. Nicolas PitreMay 3, 2006
  7. Shawn PearceMay 3, 2006
  8. Andreas EricssonMay 3, 2006
  9. Paolo CiarrocchiMay 3, 2006
  10. Jakub NarebskiMay 3, 2006
  11. Linus TorvaldsMay 3, 2006
  12. Paolo CiarrocchiMay 3, 2006
  13. Linus TorvaldsMay 3, 2006
  14. Jakub NarebskiMay 3, 2006
  15. Paolo CiarrocchiMay 3, 2006
  16. Jakub NarebskiMay 3, 2006
  17. David LangMay 3, 2006
  18. Petr BaudisMay 3, 2006
  19. David LangMay 3, 2006
  20. Petr BaudisMay 3, 2006
  21. Daniel BarkalowMay 4, 2006
  22. Theodore TsoMay 3, 2006
  23. Linus TorvaldsMay 3, 2006
  24. Theodore TsoMay 3, 2006
  25. Linus TorvaldsMay 3, 2006
  26. Sam RavnborgMay 3, 2006
  27. Petr BaudisMay 3, 2006
  28. Joel BeckerMay 3, 2006
  29. Petr BaudisMay 3, 2006
  30. Daniel BarkalowMay 3, 2006
  31. seanMay 3, 2006
  32. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2006
  33. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2006
  34. Linus TorvaldsMay 3, 2006
  35. [ANNOUNCE] Revamped Git homepagePetr Baudis, May 4, 2006
  36. Jakub NarebskiMay 4, 2006
  37. Petr BaudisMay 4, 2006

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