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 ========================================================================
