As this repo did not receive any maintenance since 10 years,
we forked it, applied all four open Pull-Requests,
and fixed two low-hanging issues.
We plan to actively use (and improve) the repo ourselfs,
and are happy to hand out push access to others,
if they want to act as maintainers as well.

https://github.com/osegermany/git-internals-pdf/

Is this a general issue, or am I doing something dumb?

[1229][chisel@droplet:git-internals-pdf][master]➔ git remote -v
origin  [email protected]:pluralsight/git-internals-pdf.git (fetch)
origin  [email protected]:pluralsight/git-internals-pdf.git (push)
[1230][chisel@droplet:git-internals-pdf][master]➔ git tree -n 2
*   d00baa9 [5 days ago] <Geoffrey Grosenbach> (HEAD, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master) Merge pull request #3 from pborreli/patch-1
|\
| * d2339b9 [8 days ago] <Pascal Borreli> Fixed typos
[1231][chisel@droplet:git-internals-pdf][master]➔ rake
rake aborted!
/home/chisel/development/git-internals-pdf/Rakefile:96: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
/home/chisel/development/git-internals-pdf/Rakefile:96: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
/home/chisel/development/git-internals-pdf/Rakefile:96: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ')'
    text.gsub!('”','"')
                  ^

(See full trace by running task with --trace)
[1232][chisel@droplet:git-internals-pdf][master]➔

I would love to read this book on my kindle? I didn't found in the Rakefile how you actually generate the pdf from your html files. Don't you think it would be possible to generate a epub and a mobi file as well?

In s2-c04-log-commit-history.textile, the text block:

shell. git log -n 30 --since="1 month ago" --until=yesterday --author="schacon"

Is represented in the PDF with "--since" colored black and "--until" colored blue. The options should be highlighted consistently, either both blue (matching --author) or both black (matching -n).

Page 17 of the PDF says tree objects are stored as "a very simple text file", which is wrong. Tree objects are stored in a binary format, see http://git.rsbx.net/Documents/Git_Data_Formats.txt

I'm producing a bunch of books for online education in Brazil, you can see those at
https://github.com/edusantana/ufpb-virtual-computacao/blob/master/livro/capitulos/livros.asc (click on 'baixar' (portuguese word for download) - i'm using asciidoc and github to produce those books.

Anyway, I was worndering, how do you draw those nice graphics like

• https://github.com/pluralsight/git-internals-pdf/blob/master/artwork/vector/Blobs.eps and
• https://github.com/pluralsight/git-internals-pdf/blob/master/artwork/vector/DAG_Model.eps ?

Which software do you use?

I have contacted Scott Chacon, and he replay:

  "I don't actually know, Geoff did those.  Perhaps you could create an issue on the repo with this questions."

"where the master branch was on the person’s repository you cloned
from when you did so, and a master branch that points the most
recent local commit."

should be:
"where the master branch was on the person’s repository you cloned
from when you did so, and a master branch that points TO the most
recent local commit."

s2-c00-using-git.textile contains:

If you want to set different values for a specific project, just leave out the
@--global@ and it will write the same snippet

However, when '--global' is rendered in the PDF, the double hyphens (--) are converted into an em-dash (–).