From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Good book on Git Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:38:19 -0500 Message-ID: <20141115133819.220e583c@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <20141114125640.46af036c@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20141114163202.4151b97e@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416076723 16144 80.91.229.3 (15 Nov 2014 18:38:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 18:38:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 15 19:38:36 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XpiF2-0004kt-Bo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 19:38:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41577 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpiF2-0002Gm-03 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:38:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38018) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpiEo-0002G5-Ax for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:38:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpiEn-0002BJ-49 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:38:22 -0500 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:54467) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpiEm-0002BE-W6; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:38:21 -0500 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 281D41117; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:38:20 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE252DE1AD; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:38:19 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177228 Archived-At: On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 11:17:33 -0500 Richard Stallman wrote: > > BTW, it is more of a textbook than a manual. > > Please don't think that "manual" means "terse reference that is not > useful as an introduction". Sure, but it usually implies comprehensive listings of features, command line flags, etc, and this doesn't. The book does not stand alone without the man pages etc. > Who wrote it? Is there any chance of persuading per to free it? Scott Chacon and Ben Straub wrote it. I don't know either of them, but you can contact them through the web site. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com