I got the following warning after editing rn-12:

Subject: [git/git.github.io] Page build warning

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It looks like we should try removing the 'markdown' setting from the '_config.yml' file.

Since they are quite long..

Please open the new issue ;-)

A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-9.md

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A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-11.md

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When compiling Git 2.0.1 on RedHat 5.9 as a non-root user I get the following error:

BUILD ERROR

make prefix=/home/eldon/local all doc info
...
    CC zlib.o
    CC unix-socket.o
    CC thread-utils.o
    CC compat/strlcpy.o
    AR libgit.a
/bin/sh: gar: command not found
make: *** [libgit.a] Error 127

My fix was to make a symlink below:

SYMLINK

gar -> /usr/bin/ar

LINUX VERSION

> lsb_release -i -r
Distributor ID: RedHatEnterpriseClient
Release:        5.9

I think the fix is to allow the use of "ar" if "gar" does not exist. I don't know if this exists for every Redhat install but "gar" is not available in /usr/bin but "ar" (which does exist in Redhat) does.

> /usr/bin/ar --version
GNU ar 2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3 20061020
Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Introductory text of git.github.io/rev_news reads like so: """Git Rev News: Edition 15 (May 11th, 2016)
Welcome to the 15th edition of Git Rev News, a digest of all things Git. For our goals, the archives, the way we work, and how to contribute or to subscribe, see the Git Rev News page on git.github.io.

This edition covers what happened during the month of April 2016, especially at the Git Contributor Summit on April 4 2016 and at the Git Merge conference on April 5 2016."""

Among three links, two of them go non-existent pages ("Git Rev News", and "Git Rev News page").

A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-8.md

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A low bus factor is a bad thing.

A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-13.md

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It looks like there's something wrong with the markdown in edition 5. More than half the page is being rendered as raw text.

(Search for "creates a new branch" to find the start of the raw text).

I think "git fetch --deepen" is in progress by Duy; am I mistaken?

I spend a lot of time these days to try to overcome gmane bugs or outages.

This is a problem because until now we have been using mostly gmane links especially for links from article titles to the discussion thread.

The last problem I had yesterday with gmane is that the following thread is missing some messages:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/281254/

For example it is missing this message:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/281323/

I would have liked to write an article about this thread, but I didn't want to use a link to a broken thread on gmane, so I eventually chose another thread to write about.

I know we have some workaround for the first edition's URL, but do we need to keep rev_news/edition-N.md for N > 1?

Some readers probably prefer "subscribing" by following on Twitter (atleast my podcast gathered a few hundred followers there). Who's for opening a @gitrevnews Twitter account? (as in: I'll do it unless there are objections)

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A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-20.md

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This was discussed in issue #59.

A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-17.md

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A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-12.md

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A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-19.md

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A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-14.md

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It seems at some point the Jekyll/GitHub Pages thingie broke our links. Basically everywhere where we link to something rev_news/rev_news.html, it breaks on GitHub, but not when running locally with Jekyll. I'm not sure if this is a configuration issue, or some limitation in GitHub pages, but it's too late in the evening for me to fiddle with it now. Will have a look another day.

As this issue is an "special edition", it is perfectly OK if there were nothing noteworthy to report in the "Support" section, but if that will be the end result (we may not know yet), please remove the section heading before the empty section (this comment applies to any other sections, but I think everything other than "Support" has some contents already).

GitHub Pages now officially support https, and we can start using to https:// links everywhere. We should probably mass-update existing links to use https.

Likewise, there's now a config option we can flip to redirect http traffic to https automatically. I can't think of a good reason not to do this, unless there's somebody who really has an http implementation that can't do https. That seems far-fetched to me in 2016. So modulo any objections, I'll do that soon in a day or two.

/cc @git/web

Some obvious points:

• The menu dominates above the content
• The fonts are way too small to be readable

A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-3.md

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A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-10.md

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I have used git for a long time, I found that when I change file attributes as chmod 755 file, git will mark as modified,

It's wrong, because git should track modified time, not changed time, it does not change content of file,

I think we should change this behaviour.

Ref https://github.com/blog/2053-easier-feeds-for-github-pages

This could make our RSS feed more usable. I haven't heard any complaints yet, but just in case someone wants to have a go at this..

A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-15.md

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I'd rather have just something shorter at the top of each edition that redirect to http://git.github.io/rev_news/rev_news.html more strongly for all the meta information. And in turn we could have more and better meta information, like a nicer signup, on http://git.github.io/rev_news/rev_news.html.

For example if I would rewrite edition 2, I would only write something like (without showing the links) at the top:

Git Rev News: Edition 2 (April 15, 2015), 10 years of Git & Git Merge 2015!

Welcome to the second edition of Git Rev News, a digest of all things Git.
For our goals, the archives, the way we work, how to contribute or to
subscribe see the Git Rev News page on http://git.github.io.

This special edition covers Git's 10th year of existence, as well as the Git
Merge conference held on April 8th & 9th in Paris, France. Git developers
and users alike came together to celebrate the anniversary, and to discuss
the current challenges of using and scaling Git.

Discussions

General

10 years of fun

...

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https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/draft/edition-2.md

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A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-6.md

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It would be great to get new editions of the Git Rev newsletter through my RSS reader.

It would be useful for people interested in this publication to be able to subscribe to it via email.

There was some interest shown on hacker news - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9264924

At the very least, letting people know how they can get new issues when they are released is important, even better if they can sign up to a list while reading an issue.

It would be nice to have an RSS feed for Git Rev News.

A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-7.md

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I was updating the MaintNotes and wanted to advertise the rev-news, but I had to spell the current one like this:

There is a volunteer-run newsletter to serve our community
(http://git.github.io/rev_news/edition-1.html). If you want to help
its publication, please contact Christian and/or Thomas.

which is way suboptimal. By the time I send it the next time, edition-1 would be stale, and
http://git.github.io/rev_news/ will just give us a 404.

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https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/draft/edition-1.md

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A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-5.md

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Some statistics would be a nice motivation tool.

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https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-4.md

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I sent edition 19 using MailChimp but I did not use the template that Nicola had saved.
I tried it but it looked like the result had lost some formatting.
So instead I just used a new template where I just copied the HTML from the web page (https://git.github.io/rev_news/2016/09/14/edition-19/).

The main problem is that the background was white instead of brown. But otherwise the formatting looked better.

It would be nice to find a better solution to have both a good background and proper formatting.

Once we have multiple editions, the archive page will be too long.

A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-18.md

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Thanks to @gitster for this idea.

We could highlight some Git contributor in each edition. Hopefully we can have the first already in ed. 2 (#29).

Some example questions:

• Who are you, and what do you do?
• What would you name your most important contribution to Git?
• What are you doing on the Git project these days, and why?
• If you could get a team of expert developers to work full time on something in Git for a full year, what would it be?
• If you could remove something from Git without worrying about backwards compatibility, what would it be?
• What is your favorite Git-related tool/library, outside of Git itself?

As discussed in f37b404.

@tfnico as discussed IRL a few days ago ;-) we could have a look at:

https://github.com/PeerJ/paper-now

and:

http://www.jekyllnow.com/

A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-16.md

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