Re: Announcing Pro Git Second Edition Reedited

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

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.
> >
> > Have you considered sending some of your edits there? It sounds
> > like they may be too large to just dump as a big PR, but it might
> > be possible to grow together over time.
>
> Fair question. I had tried doing this for the first edition of Pro
> Git, but the person who was in charge of accepting changes wasn't a
> native speaker of English. As a result I had a hard time convincing
> him that my changes were necessary. Many of my changes were very
> subjective, and not technical, so this was hard to overcome. Things
> might have been different if I were correcting technical errors or
> adding significant sections to the book. But, since I'm not a Git
> expert, that's not what I was attempting to do.
>
> Things have changed for the better for the second edition of Pro
> Git. Its management seems much more willing to accept the kind of
> changes I make, as shown by their reaction to the excellent work by
> Robert Day.

  thank ya, thank ya very much. :-) most of my submissions to that
book have been cosmetic -- punctuation, font changes, clarifications
-- and others are to keep up with changes to git. that said, i
definitely have ideas for more wide-ranging changes if i ever get the
time; i think some section re-ordering could be helpful but that's all
in due time.

  i do what i can.

rday

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