Re: Announcing Pro Git Second Edition Reedited

2018-12-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018, Jon Forrest wrote: > On 12/11/2018 2:50 AM, Jeff King wrote: > > > The content at https://git-scm.com/book is pulled regularly from > > https://github.com/progit/progit2, which has collected a number of > > fixes (as well as translations) since the 2nd edition was > > released

Re: Announcing Pro Git Second Edition Reedited

2018-12-11 Thread Jon Forrest
On 12/11/2018 9:15 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: I think an uspoken issue here is that while you're indeed free to "fork" this book and maintain your fork, having two books with almost identical contents may not be the best option as it simply may be outright confusing for those at whom you

Re: Announcing Pro Git Second Edition Reedited

2018-12-11 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 09:00:31AM -0800, Jon Forrest wrote: > > As someone who's read neither your edit or the original edition, but I > > did read your version of the intro, it would be very helpful to me / > > others if there was some diff between the two so we could make up our > > own mind ab

Re: Announcing Pro Git Second Edition Reedited

2018-12-11 Thread Jon Forrest
On 12/11/2018 7:13 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: As someone who's read neither your edit or the original edition, but I did read your version of the intro, it would be very helpful to me / others if there was some diff between the two so we could make up our own mind about which one to r

Re: Announcing Pro Git Second Edition Reedited

2018-12-11 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 4:02 PM Jon Forrest wrote: > On 12/11/2018 2:50 AM, Jeff King wrote: > > > The content at https://git-scm.com/book is pulled regularly from > > https://github.com/progit/progit2, which has collected a number of fixes > > (as well as translations) since the 2nd edition was r

Re: Announcing Pro Git Second Edition Reedited

2018-12-11 Thread Jon Forrest
On 12/11/2018 2:50 AM, Jeff King wrote: The content at https://git-scm.com/book is pulled regularly from https://github.com/progit/progit2, which has collected a number of fixes (as well as translations) since the 2nd edition was released. Have you considered sending some of your edits there

Re: Announcing Pro Git Second Edition Reedited

2018-12-11 Thread Jeff King
On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 10:42:12AM -0800, Jon Forrest wrote: > Several years ago I released what I called Pro Git Reedited. This was an > attempt to tighten up the text of the excellent Pro Git book written by > Scott Chacon. Since then, Scott and Ben Straub released the second > edition of Pro Gi

Announcing Pro Git Second Edition Reedited

2018-12-09 Thread Jon Forrest
Several years ago I released what I called Pro Git Reedited. This was an attempt to tighten up the text of the excellent Pro Git book written by Scott Chacon. Since then, Scott and Ben Straub released the second edition of Pro Git so once again I'm releasing a reedited version of what they wrote.