Changing https://git-scm.com/about/distributed, was RE: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 19, 2019, 11:43 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1902191154560.41@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <35a401d4c7ef$acf14070$06d3c150$@pdinc.us>

Hi Jason,

let's belatedly fix the incredible misrepresenting subject line.

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019, Jason Pyeron wrote:

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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Johannes Schindelin
> > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2019 4:00 PM
> > 
> > On Mon, 18 Feb 2019, Senol Yazici wrote:
> > >
> > > I just stumbled over following page
> > >
> > > https://git-scm.com/about/distributed
> > >
> > > and was wondering if it is possible to
> > >
> > > - demilitarise that “dictator/lieutenant” thing and
> > > - de-religionise that “blessed” thing
> > >
> > > I did not had the feeling that git is “pro military”, or is against
> > > “non religious” developers/users.
> > 
> > Those are valid concerns, and I value your feedback.
> > 
> > It would probably be a good thing to change this, and you can even do it
> > yourself: create a Pull Request to change this file:
> > 
> > https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/blob/master/app/views/about/_distributed.html.erb
> > 
> 
> Curious, where are the sources for the PNGs saved? I did not find any obvious vector or art project files.

As you can see clearly from that page, the PNG in question is called workflow-c@2x.png and it lives in /images/about/. Using the Ctrl+T trick on GitHub even reveals the location in the repository:

https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/blob/master/public/images/about/workflow-c@2x.png

Clicking on the History link (https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/commits/master/public/images/about/workflow-c%402x.png) reveals that this file was first committed in https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/commit/e640167a2687eae2d1ed30c5b0d003bfb09e88c3. Since that commit message only talks about adding Retina versions (@2x), let's look at the history of the original PNG: https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/commits/master/public/images/about/workflow-c.png

At some stage of digging, you will invariably figure out that all of the figures come from the ProGit book, the dictator/lieutenant one from https://github.com/progit/progit2/blob/master/images/benevolent-dictator.png

A little more digging would have revealed that those figures are all generated from one file: progit.sketch. Its history: https://github.com/progit/progit2/commits/master/diagram-source/progit.sketch indicates that you need Sketch3 to open/modify that file.

I found that I can open that file on Windows (where Sketch is not supported) using Lunacy from https://icons8.com/lunacy and the diagram in question seems to be on the page 05 - Workflows.

Please note that all of what I described is available publicly, I had no idea about it, all I know is how to use the tools to find out. Which is why I described it so that you can know how to use the tools to answer your questions, too.

Ciao, Johannes

> 
> -Jason
> 
>