A new home on the web for Pro Git

The Pro Git project now has a website of its own, and you’re looking at it. Let’s take a minute to walk through what’s here.

First, the book itself, readable online. Every section is rendered straight from the AsciiDoc sources in the repository, one page per section, with a sidebar table of contents and previous/next links — so you can read it front to back or jump around as you please.

Second, full-text search over the whole book and this blog. If you want to know where we cover git rebase or the reflog, you can jump straight there instead of scanning the table of contents and hoping.

Third, this blog, where we’ll post updates and progress reports as work on the third edition moves along.

And finally, a history of the book — how Pro Git went from a 2009 Apress title to one of the most widely read (and most widely translated) open source books in the world.

How does the site stay current? It’s rebuilt automatically from the progit3 repository every time a change lands on main, so what you read here always matches the latest state of the manuscript. If you spot a problem — in the book or on the site — issues and pull requests are welcome.