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J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Jon Forrest cc: Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Announcing Pro Git Second Edition Reedited In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20181211105007.GD7233@sigill.intra.peff.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (LFD 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.2 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel4.indieserve.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cpanel4.indieserve.net: authenticated_id: rpjday+crashcourse.ca/only user confirmed/virtual account not confirmed X-Authenticated-Sender: cpanel4.indieserve.net: rpjday@crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org 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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================