gitready / gitready

learn git one commit at a time.

Git Ready

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
~ Henry Van Dyke

About

This repository hosts the HTML, CSS, images, and posts for gitready.com. Git Ready publishes (was daily, then tri-weekly, and now) weekly tips for those who want to learn more about the VCS or just get started. The blog as a whole started as a journey to learn more about Git and show others how useful it is. If you find issues with the content, just send qrush a message on GitHub or email him at [email protected].

Publishing

This blog is generated with the Jekyll engine. Simple and easy formatting that sticks to the basics. All static HTML too, so worrying about scalability is non-existent.

Contributing

If you have ideas about new pages, layouts, or what have you, fork away!
If you want to submit tips, please do so here.

Translating

If you are interested in translating posts into another language, great! Here's what to do:

• Fork the project.
• Create a branch with the ISO code for your language, so for english:

git checkout -b en

• Unpublish all the posts (and commit your changes):

rake unpublish
git commit -am "Unpublishing all the posts"

• Translate the front page headers, footers. Check out the other translated sites for an example, such as the german one.
• Translate as little or as many posts as you so desire.
• Push your work back up (remember to use the right branch name!):

git push origin en

• Submit a pull request to qrush's repository.

Once that's done, I'll add your language's subdomain and get it published.

Licensing

The actual content of the articles is licensed under Creative Commons. The code that this project consists of is licensed under MIT.

Basically, if you're going to redistribute a blog post, just make sure to link back. If you'd like to publish the content, that's fine too, just please keep the licensing information in.

gitready's Issues

Create new repositories for recently contributed languages

Every language needs a separate repository below gitready with a gh_pages branch to be built. New repositories are needed for the language codes id, zh and el. Those new languages can be found in their branches in gitready/gitready.

the disqus iframe out of box

https://github.com/gitready/gitready/blob/en/css/screen.css#L9

In the article page, disqus content is out of box, like this, i think it don't need margin .

rake does not work under Windows

I would like to translate this project. I forked it, created a new branch but when I give the command
rake unpublish
git doesn't recognise it: bash: rake: command not found. I use the git-shell of SmartGit under Windows. I could install rake to Ubuntu, but is there a way to be able to use rake under Windows, so that I can do the translation when I am away of my Linux machine?

Broken internationalized url

It seems that the different links used to access to the translated version — see: on the very bottom of the pages — are broken.

I suspect that the dns entries for de.gitready.com, fr.gitready.com, etc. are not declared in the public dns zone.

Disqus Discovery links are not configured properly

Just above the Disqus comments, there is a new section for Discovery which shows two more links from the website. But the urls are not configured properly. They currently redirect to http://0.0.0.0:4000/beginner/2009/03/06/ignoring-doesnt-remove-a-file.html

Broken image on "pushing and pulling" article

When viewing:
http://gitready.com/beginner/2009/01/21/pushing-and-pulling.html

The main diagram does not longer display. When navigating to the image url directly the site hosting it displays this message:

The owner of this website (osteele.com) does not allow hotlinking to 
that resource (/images/2008/git-transport.png).

The url in question is:
http://osteele.com/images/2008/git-transport.png

it is still available on here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100104194951im_/http://osteele.com/images/2008/git-transport.png

Broken link

gitcasts.com

Assume stewardship of gitready

I haven't spent time on making gitready.com better in years. It's time it went to better hands. The domain is up for renewal in 60 days, funny enough. I'm looking for someone to:

• Maintain the site, consider making it better (Redesign? Responsive layout? It's up to you!)
• Keep all of the original articles' permalinks working until...forever?
• Not put ads on the site once they own it
• Maintain issues here on GitHub
• Somehow encourage more posts to be written

If you're serious about this, write a new post about something git-related and submit it as a new PR to this repo. I don't know how to decide who gets it, but at least this shows some kind of effort towards the site. If it ends up being a team of a few folks, that works too, but someone in the end will have to be the owner of the domain.

Making a new post is pretty easy (and this probably deserves its own guide/doc): Make a new file like this one:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gitready/gitready/en/_posts/2011-10-21-ribbon-and-catchup-reading-new-commits.textile

And fill it with your post! Make sure to have the file name and title right or Jekyll will get confused. Submit a PR to the en branch (or the language of your choosing).

Remove whygitisbetterthanx.com link from the homepage

The whygitbetterthanx.com domain expired.
Someone took the domain, the page that is there nowadays is not the one from Scott Schacon.

(even the repository one seems pretty outdated, I suggest removing it completely)

de: errcount.com is down - evil redirect

This issue only happens on German pages (on de.gitready.com), not on English ones (other languages untested): Any page loads but then redirects to http://errcount.com/.

The behaviour comes from the line <script src="http://errcount.com/ctr/762.js"></script> ... good news, the site hasn't been hacked but errcount.com seems not to exist anymore (the site showing up says: This domain is for sale! Buy it now! Click Here). Maybe find another counter service...