Re: Git documentation at kernel.org

[Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>]

Hey,

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> kernel.org is probably the most "official" place for developers, but for
>> Git users, http://git-scm.com/ is most likely the best entry point. If
>> it were not for historical reasons, I think http://git-scm.com/docs/ or
>> so would be the most natural URL to host official docs.
>
> Good point. That is probably the best place to host it.
>
> As far as historical reasons, perhaps the right answer is to put the
> documentation where it makes sense to go _now_, and ask kernel.org to
> issue http redirects for http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs.

I would be happy to set this up.  I'm currently in the process of
revamping the website and this is one of the things I'm planning on
doing anyways - not just hosting the generated docs, but also making
them searchable and whatnot.

Actually, as long as I'm on this, what do people think about git-scm
hosting the wiki as well?  As far as I can tell, it was down for
months and now it's back in some sort of weird read-only state.  If I
imported everything into a different wiki and hosted it on git-scm
would that be acceptable?

Also, something that I realized I am not willing to maintain any more
is the Git Community Book. It was an experiment at reorganizing some
of the docs, but instead I spent my time on Pro Git, which is CC
licensed.  Would anyone object to me removing the community book from
the git-scm site and more tightly integrating the Pro Git content?
It's more up to date and better content, I feel - I would rather have
one book to maintain than two.  However, since it is a commercial
product (albeit a Creative Commons licensed one), I wasn't sure if
people would have an issue with it.

Scott