Re: Pro Git book URL on https://git-scm.com/

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Dec 5, 2022, 09:23 UTC
Message-ID: <Y424nPuHH+/susGO@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <d9253ae3-9fc4-f426-a737-792bf158bd4e@web.de>

On Sat, Dec 03, 2022 at 01:02:41PM +0100, René Scharfe wrote:

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> Am 03.12.22 um 12:23 schrieb Aonodensetsu:
> > The Git documentation has been moved (probably by accident) to
> > https://git-scm.com/book/pl/v1%20z (notice the %20z at the end). This
> > is a bug and makes all redirections fail with a 500 error, since they
> > try to redirect to the correct address.
> 
> I can't find "v1 z" or "v1%20z" neither in the repository for the
> website (https://github.com/git/git-scm.com) nor in the one for the book
> (https://github.com/progit/progit2).  So I'm not sure what's going on
> here, but reporting it as an issue via the website repository should get
> the right people to take a look, I assume.

The book content is added to the sql database by a ruby job. But we stopped running that job for the v1 (first-edition) book at some point before 2017. I don't have an exact date, but I removed the generation code in 495fa431 (drop book.rake, 2017-10-08). We later restored it so that we could re-import historical versions (say, if the database crashed and was wiped), but it finally went away in f474e35c (Remove link to 1st book edition, 2018-11-21).

Frankly, I'm surprised there's any v1 content left, since we've had to re-build the database from scratch a few times over the years.

-Peff