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[PATCH 3/6] gitcore-tutorial: update broken link

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Apr 20, 2017, 20:33 UTC
Message-ID
<20170420203348.g5b2ttxm7wray4vy@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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The slides for the Linux-mentoring presentation are no longer available. Let's point to the wayback version of the page, which works.

Note that the referenced diagram is also available on page 15 of [1]. We could link to that instead, but it's not clear from the URL scheme ("uploads") whether it's going to stick around forever.

[1] https://www.linuxfoundation.jp/jp_uploads/seminar20070313/Randy.pdf
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
TBH, I'm not sure this diagram is actually showing anything all that
useful, and maybe the paragraph could be re-worded, or a better diagram
found. I restricted myself here to a technical fix for the broken link,
but I'd be fine with somebody taking a more editorial pass.
 Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
index 3a0ec8c53..7577f27ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
@@ -1429,7 +1429,7 @@ Although Git is a truly distributed system, it is often
 convenient to organize your project with an informal hierarchy
 of developers. Linux kernel development is run this way. There
 is a nice illustration (page 17, "Merges to Mainline") in
-http://www.xenotime.net/linux/mentor/linux-mentoring-2006.pdf[Randy Dunlap's presentation].
+https://web.archive.org/web/20120915203609/http://www.xenotime.net/linux/mentor/linux-mentoring-2006.pdf[Randy Dunlap's presentation].
 
 It should be stressed that this hierarchy is purely *informal*.
 There is nothing fundamental in Git that enforces the "chain of
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