Pro Git Book Contents

This is the source code for the Pro Git book contents. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. I hope you enjoy it, I hope it helps you learn Git, and I hope you'll support Apress and me by purchasing a print copy of the book at Amazon:

http://tinyurl.com/amazonprogit

It is also available online at:

http://git-scm.com/book/

and fully translated in 10 languages.

Making Ebooks

On Fedora (16 and later) you can run something like this::

$ yum install ruby calibre rubygems ruby-devel rubygem-ruby-debug rubygem-rdiscount
$ makeebooks en  # will produce a mobi

On MacOS you can do like this::

1. INSTALL ruby and rubygems
2. $ gem install rdiscount
3. DOWNLOAD Calibre for MacOS and install command line tools. You'll need some dependencies to generate a PDF:
   • pandoc: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/installing.html
   • xelatex: http://tug.org/mactex/
4. $ makeebooks zh #will produce a mobi

Errata

If you see anything that is technically wrong or otherwise in need of correction, please open an issue and one of the maintainers will take a look.

Translation

If you wish to translate the book, your work will be put up on the git-scm.com site. Please put your translation into the appropriate subdirectory of this project, using the ISO 639 and send a pull request.

Sending a pull request

• Be careful to use UTF-8 encoding in your files.
• Do not mix changes to the original english with translations in a single pull request.
• If your pull request changes a translation, prefix your pull request and commits'messages with the ISO 639 code, e.g. [de] Update chapter 2.
• Make sure the translation changes can be automatically merged. The maintainers can not make the merge manually if there are some conflicts.
• Make as sure as possible that the changes work correctly for publishing to pdf, ebooks and the git-scm.com website