Re: git-scm.com refresh

From: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: May 5, 2012, 22:24 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP2yMaJuGgowcdcySBa-qFNeaSCh8_LLv+d+g=WnGFpOf05vzw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m38vh7qxs3.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Hey,

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> version of any command: http://git-scm.com/docs/git-fsck/1.5.5
>
> That's very good.  Thank you very much for giving home to git manpages
> online.
>
> It would be nice for those manpages to have the title of page to be
> set appropriately, e.g. for http://git-scm.com/docs/git-bisect to have
> "git-bisect(1)" or "git-bisect(1) Manual Page", or even perhaps
> "git-bisect(1) Manual Page - Find by binary search the change that
> introduced a bug" instead of just "Git".

Good catch - I'm pushing that out in a minute.

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>> * We designed a new logo[1] - there are multiple variations available
>> for download on the site under the most permissive CC license for any
>> use.
>
> IMVHO it is too similar to Bazaar logo:
>
>  http://bazaar.canonical.com/bzricons/bazaar-logo.png
>
> I like the [---] git logo, but I guess it is a bit cryptic.
>           [+++]
>

I was actually concerned with the same thing, but a) not that many people are familiar with the Bzr logo and b) when I actually look at the Bzr logo I don't really see that much in common. It was done by someone totally unfamiliar with that logo and although I can still see similarities, I think it's a good, clean logo that would be easily recognizable and much more versatile than what we have been using so I decided to stick with it.

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>> Let me know if you run into anything or there are any features you
>> would like to see.
>
> In my ancient 10-years old web browser (Mozilla 1.17.2, Linux) the new
> layout is seriously broken (misaligned), and much less readable than
> the old one (BTW. could you keep the old one, perhaps only the front
> page, for comparison?).  Also the font size is too small.

I have to assume that just about any modern site looks pretty awful to you. I honestly don't know what to do about this - I can't even test it really. I am aware since the launch that a number of people have issues with JS being turned off, which I'm working on, but there's not a lot I can do for browsers like that and I'm not sure what the point would be anyhow. People with browsers like that don't need anything on this site as far as I can think of. It targets people that don't know Git and possibly don't know version control and are trying to figure it out.

I'll try to make it better, but it would be simpler if you could fix it and send me a pull request since I have no other way to see what you're seeing with tech that out of date.

Scott