Re: [ANN] Pro Git Reedited 2nd Edition

From: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 24, 2016, 20:03 UTC
Message-ID: <49f49b92-bc40-e975-10e9-fccc8a3ae25c@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5795087C.4010503@gmail.com>

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>> Also, I realized one potentially major disadvantage of sharing in
>> Google Drive. This is that the URL will change each time I update
>> the book. Apparently Google is taking away the ability to create
>> a static link at the end of August 2016.
>
> I think you can share a folder instead, and this would be stable.
> Alternatively, when updating the book you could update the link
> in the GitHub repository description and/or the README for the
> fork.

By the way, I might have just figured out a good way of handling static links with Google Drive.

Apparently, when I created the pdf version of Pro Git Reedited 2nd Edition (which I did on a Dropbox folder) I didn't wait long enough for the creation process to complete (I think that was the problem but I'm not 100% sure). Anyway, as a result, the pdf version didn't have any images in it.

After fooling around for a while, I was able to create a pdf that did contain the images but I was worried that uploading it to Google Drive would change the URL, as we had discussed.

However, the "Manage Versions ..." option on Google Drive let me upload a new version of the file *without* changing the share URL! Assuming I wasn't hallucinating, this will be a great way to update both the pdf and the HTML versions as they change in the future.

Jon