Re: Announcing Pro Git Second Edition Reedited

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Dec 11, 2018, 10:50 UTC
Message-ID: <20181211105007.GD7233@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <pujni2$ulb$1@blaine.gmane.org>

On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 10:42:12AM -0800, Jon Forrest wrote:

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> Several years ago I released what I called Pro Git Reedited. This was an
> attempt to tighten up the text of the excellent Pro Git book written by
> Scott Chacon. Since then, Scott and Ben Straub released the second
> edition of Pro Git so once again I'm releasing a reedited version of
> what they wrote. I hope you enjoy it.
> 
> The PDF of my version is at
> 
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/18wGebSU0dyYU1L_bfyoDQtZRF1Vo1H3p/view?usp=sharing
> 
> If there's enough interest, I'll try to put up an HTML version of
> the book.

The content at https://git-scm.com/book is pulled regularly from https://github.com/progit/progit2, which has collected a number of fixes (as well as translations) since the 2nd edition was released.

Have you considered sending some of your edits there? It sounds like they may be too large to just dump as a big PR, but it might be possible to grow together over time.

-Peff