From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Scott Chacon" Subject: Git Community Book Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:20:20 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "git list" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 29 18:21:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KNrwz-0007xz-Gh for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:21:25 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751746AbYG2QUX (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:20:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751851AbYG2QUX (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:20:23 -0400 Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.29]:13761 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750885AbYG2QUW (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:20:22 -0400 Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so1551505ywe.1 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:20:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=PlL1uPxe588NHtm6pbe9Q/4uW4JGQAwKLfjBFYPYLBI=; b=CEsfjnX/pPAshliazpaE+Wb5xcai3jS2LyQC1C3si73W3sEYfpl6jTLVZGGLQ8J2Os dybN2bsbu88FgBXZTL+/ul3wphfZH0LvDX3Ev0P5j8jaHZ0vahKoId99TTSmvJjzmMCf vv2kXN1GlaZOXQK44ccyp2B7sSibbuMtfZIXM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=e9mF5cFI1w3ZiyhSbawLwdcCWtXM/65vQu9FD5tE3dhP57hfuz1mV4evMeGU5XoVqt S9RG098gfcVnFFhIY3mbuCSh8lmsYfR0PJFVWOZO490C1HklU1YNcs0fb9n0lrHwtxPZ xfXSrEEcO+LF8Pk2Fzj5xG+DFFvtBCY4eg1CA= Received: by 10.114.125.2 with SMTP id x2mr6869672wac.59.1217348420590; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:20:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.22.20 with HTTP; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:20:20 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: So I wanted to develop a really nice, easy to follow book for Git newcomers to learn git quickly and easily. One of the issues I remember having when learning Git is that there is a lot of great material in the User Guide, Tutorial, Tutorial 2, Everyday Git, etc - but they're all huge long documents that are sometimes difficult to come back to and remember where you were, and I didn't know which one to start with or where to find what I was looking for, etc. So, what I've started to do is pull material from all of them into a single book which will be available in online HTML (one page per chapter) and downloadable PDF form. I'm trying to give it a very organized flow that will hopefully be a bit easier to follow and digest than the current formats, and including a number of diagrams, illustrations and screencasts to supplement the text. Where possible, I am also trying to simplify the explanations a bit to be a tad more digestible for beginning users, at least in the first couple dozen chapters. I have put the current html output of this book here: http://book.git-scm.com It is not complete - the grey links are chapters that are very short or completely empty - but it is a start. Please let me know what you think, and if anyone is interested in helping with the project, give me a shout. Also, for credit, I have generated an Authors page I will be linking to the site soon that lists everyone that contributed a patch to any of the Git User Guide, Git Tutorials, etc. It is in the PDF right now, but not in the HTML version yet (and the PDF is not yet linked to the site). Thanks, Scott