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Re: is http://git-scm.com an *official* git-affiliated site?

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 7, 2018, 12:54 UTC
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<20180207125415.GA16314@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 12:37:32PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
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> >   however, while there is no link for the "worktree" command, there
> > does in fact exist a similarly-named web page
> > https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree.
> 
> It is an official site, of the git project. The project is legally
> managed by the SFC which owns the domain, Github happens to host it (for
> free) for us.

Actually, this isn't accurate anymore. The costs are covered by donated services from a few companies. I've been meaning to write this up (and thank them!), and will probably send something out around the contributor summit.

> It's not fully auto-generated so stuff like git-worktree doesn't get
> added automatically, I just added a PR for that:
> https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/pull/1133

Thanks for doing that. I'm also open to auto-generating the index if we can come up with well-organized output.

-Peff
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