Re: Migration of git-scm.com to a static web site: ready for review/testing

> Hi,
> 
> the idea of migrating https://git-scm.com/ from a Rails app to a static
> site has been discussed several times on this list in the past.
> 
> Thanks to the heroic, multi-year efforts of Matt Burke, Victoria Dye and
> Matthias Aßhauer, there is now a Pull Request, ready for review:
> https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/pull/1804
> 
> This Pull Request is not for the faint of heart, mainly because of the
> sheer amount of generated pages that are committed to the repository (such
> as the book, the manual pages, etc, a design decision necessary to run
> this as a static website).
> 
> These pages are generated by GitHub workflows that are intended to run on
> a schedule, and the scripts that generate them are part of the Pull
> Request. For that reason, I do not consider it necessary to review those
> generated pages, those reviews have been done in the upstream sources from
> which the pages were generated.
> 
> At this point, the patches are fairly robust and I am mainly hoping for
> help with verifying that the static site works as intended, that existing
> links will continue to work with the new site (essentially, find obscure
> references to the existing website, then insert `git.github.io/` in the
> URL and verify that it works as intended).
> 
> To that end, I deployed this branch to GitHub Pages so that anyone
> interested (hopefully many!) can have a look at
> https://git.github.io/git-scm.com/ and compare to the existing
> https://git-scm.com/.