Re: Git Community Book

> The book is basically a fork of all three of the guides I mentioned
> (User Manual and both Tutorials), and with the scope and goals I
> currently have in mind, will not be kept in sync - it's just not going
> to be possible.  I think in the end, the goals of the texts are so
> very different that sections it will simply not make sense to try to
> keep them in sync in some sort of automated fashion.  That's one of
> the reasons why I choose Markdown - I saw no need to use asciidoc, as
> the book will not be shipped around with Git or built using the same
> processes, and I had no need for the advantages of asciidoc in my
> project.  I don't think it makes much sense to have the book be a man
> page at all.
>
> However, I will watch the manual and guides and try to incorporate
> changes to them as appropriate, and I will likely have some updates to
> them myself as I've been more closely scrutinizing them.