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The new Git-scm.com

317 points by tanoku 14y ago

kevingadd 14y ago
I mourn the loss of the old awesome tree-munching git monster logo.
- Michiel 14y ago
  I'm not sure which one you mean, but the new logo looks great and it visualizes the concept of branches quite effectively.
  - spacemanaki 14y ago
    The old git-scm.com had this as its header: https://github.com/github/gitscm/raw/master/public/images/header.gif https://github.com/github/gitscm/raw/master/public/images/he...
- DannoHung 14y ago
  I agree, tree-munch was cute and fun. I wish he were back in some capacity
- kzrdude 14y ago
  it's a blob committed to munching trees. :-)
- dnc 14y ago
  It was one of the first things that comes to my mind when I think about cute looking site :).
- PommeDeTerre 14y ago
  I apologize for the language, but one of my co-workers said that the new logo looks like a penis (the diagonal branch) with a dangling scrotum (the vertical branch) to him. The circles on the end are the glans and the testes. Unfortunately, I do now see what he is saying. This is yet another incident in a long line of easily-misinterpreted open source project logos or names. MongoDB is one of the most significant, with "mongo" being slang for mental retardation in several languages. The scrotwm window manager, while quite excellent, also has a name that's easily misinterpreted.
  - icebraining 14y ago
    Git itself has one of those names. Personally I think anyone who is offended by those names can go use something else.
    - praptak 14y ago
      Only in case of Git it is intentional. This is how its creator jokingly describes himself.
lordlicorice 14y ago
Why does it think I have a Mac?
- dewski 14y ago
  What OS and browser are you on?
  - cpeterso 14y ago
    A Mac? ;)
- kevingadd 14y ago
  That should fix itself if you enable JavaScript. I had the same problem.
  - joeyh 14y ago
    I have JavaScript enabled, using chromium, on Debian; it still thinks I have a Mac.
tikhonj 14y ago
I don't know--this one's polished and all, but looks like another startup's landing page more than anything else. The old one was distinctive and had character. I also miss the old logo, even if it didn't make much sense.
- mikegerwitz 14y ago
  I agree; I feel rather disappointed by this move. The layout feels cookie-cutter to me. If anything, it just looks like an effort to "sell" the project to businesses, especially with the list of projects/companies at the bottom. The no-js default of Mac for the download is also a poor choice, regardless of its popularity, especially considering that Git was created by the author of the kernel Linux. The previous theme was cute, fun and different. This site does, however, do an excellent job of laying out the information (minus the fact that it needs JS when stylesheets are enabled).
  - comex 14y ago
    I don't understand why they're even offering a download. If I'm using a Mac and I want to start using git for the first time, chances are the pre-installed git (1.7.7.5, from last December) is the best option.
    - avolcano 14y ago
      Git isn't "pre-installed" on OSX; it comes with XCode. You can be a developer on OSX and not use XCode. It's not common, but it doesn't hurt to offer a download. And, of course, it's not like XCode gets updated every time Git does.
  - DanI-S 14y ago
    As a developer who loves using git, I am more than happy for others to go to the effort of selling it to business stakeholders. Why wouldn't I be?
    - mikegerwitz 14y ago
theatrus2 14y ago
Great, except for the tag line. I know they're trying to be trendy, but its not really helping.
- lordlicorice 14y ago
  I think it's neat. When you refresh the page you get a new one.
- Stratego 14y ago
  Tag line(s). There's multiple and they're displayed randomly.
- davvid 14y ago
  I really like git's original tag line: git - the stupid content tracker And, of course, "the information manager from hell", http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2177877 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2177877 I don't know if Linus meant it as a tongue-in-cheek joke, but that last one is pretty funny to me (probably because I read it as "the IT manager from hell", which evokes dilbert).
masnick 14y ago
As someone who has spent a lot of time convincing people to use git and helping them learn, it's great to see resources like this made available for free to the community.
jeltz 14y ago
While good looking I am not sure if the new deign is an improvement. For one the download button is less obvious. The new one is likely to be mistaken for noise, there are too many details around it.
- teraflop 14y ago
  Also, it's now much harder to find tarballs for Linux. You have to follow the "older releases" link even if you want the most recent version.
mcmire 14y ago
Sexy. I like.
flixic 14y ago
This is great in so many ways: - New logo! Much better "brand" than previous, and look good in small sizes, although I will miss the cute visual pun of GIT letters being refresh, addition and subtraction symbols. Although, both favicon and logo image would look better without half-transparent-pixels in vertical branch. - New font! Adelle from Typekit, not from Google Fonts. They took it seriously, and it's a fantastic choice. - The whole branding and theme and everything is way better than what was before, and arguably the best looking site for any DVCS. (maybe took some design inspiration from http://www.joyent.com/products/ http://www.joyent.com/products/ ?) - Built on Rails, and open sourced: https://github.com/github/gitscm-next https://github.com/github/gitscm-next That's great, and hopefully will allow the community to contribute more to the site itself.
- roryokane 14y ago
  I made a GitHub Issue for cleaning up the favicon per your suggestion: https://github.com/github/gitscm-next/issues/46 https://github.com/github/gitscm-next/issues/46
- demetris 14y ago
  “New font! Adelle from Typekit, not from Google Fonts. They took it seriously, and it's a fantastic choice.” To my eyes, it is a poor choice: First, Adelle does not seem to work well for body text. Second, it does not look good on Windows.
  - batista 14y ago
    He probably means "a fantastic choice" for people who like or have no problem with good quality fonts, not for outliers. I see no problem with "body text". In fact even tiny sized text on the size is still very legible, like the descriptions of operations in the "About" page.
    - ohgodthecat 14y ago
      No your parent is right, font replacement on windows still looks bad most of the time. Larger font sizes look a little less bad but there still exist rendering issues especially in chrome.
Aqwis 14y ago
I wonder how much it would cost them to buy git.com.
- primatology 14y ago
  From domainbrokers.com: > The owner might not respond to offers under $299520 Yikes.
  - robryan 14y ago
    Seems stupid on the part of the owner, not like they are going to find a big brand that matches the domain so well again and who knows how long domains will be valuable.
  - prezjordan 14y ago
    What an ass. He'll never sell it though, so his loss.
- schacon 14y ago
  Yeah, I've inquired a number of times, it's ridiculous.
  - DannoHung 14y ago
    Yikes, 300k? How much would it cost to buy a new TLD?
    - ceejayoz 14y ago
      Actually, that's a fascinating point. I wonder if Github has considered coughing up the the $185k to apply for the .git TLD.
      - marshray 14y ago
        I wonder if anybody has a server on their network named 'git' with which the single label DNS name 'git' as a TLD would conflict?
brcrth 14y ago
I wonder how much awesome free/open source tools/services would benefit from a clean, good design like this.
- lukeholder 14y ago
  I thought about making a site to allow designers to offer to design things for open source project as a way of giving back.
  - RegEx 14y ago
    Stop thinking about it and do it, sounds like a great idea :)
  - _pferreir_ 14y ago
    DO IT! ;)
juddlyon 14y ago
Huge improvement! The title tags could use some love, but I'm sure it's been a mad scramble to get the site up.
- schacon 14y ago
  If you have places where the titles could be better, please let me know at https://github.com/github/gitscm-next/issues https://github.com/github/gitscm-next/issues or send a PR
pwpwp 14y ago
The old one had character.
- davvid 14y ago
  It's interesting to see how it's progressed. Before git-scm.com there was git.or.cz: http://web.archive.org/web/20080102111752/http://git.or.cz/ http://web.archive.org/web/20080102111752/http://git.or.cz/
mmhd 14y ago
Looks great!
pgbovine 14y ago
curious question: Which projects within Microsoft are using Git? The company is listed as a user on the front page.
- mindstab 14y ago
  Microsoft codeplex now supports git I believe so the general Microsoft community supports it and that specific MS product uses it now. Presumably some internal projects also use it
- __float 14y ago
  If you click on the Microsoft logo, you'll be taken to the GitHub profile page for Windows Azure: https://github.com/WindowsAzure https://github.com/WindowsAzure
- mkchandler 14y ago
  The ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI frameworks use Git (hosted on Codeplex.) Link: http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/ http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/
asb 14y ago
I love the site update. It's very classy there's not even a direct GitHub homepage link, let alone a logo. Is this considered the official Git website? If so, would it not make sense for the domain to be owned by e.g. the SFC on behalf of the Git project?
Seich 14y ago
It looks really nice, I kind of miss the old carefree attitude the site used to have but, it's definitely an improvement.
mccoyst 14y ago
Yeah, I miss domo-kun.
g3orge 14y ago
Proof that Open Source can have beautiful websites.
xbryanx 14y ago
Very nice and clean, but, and I know I'll get boo'ed down for this, it's always a bit tiresome to see gender norms reinforced in slogans like, "--not-your-daddys-version-control."
- petercooper 14y ago
  And terms like "his/her" which is also in the documentation. The ordering shows a preference that is not necessary. The singular "they" (or the relevant variant) is acceptable in written English, so "their" in this case.
  - LeafStorm 14y ago
    Actually, I recently read an article by Khosroshahi which included a study demonstrating that "his/her" does not in fact carry a gender bias -- people who use "his/her" in writing were likely to assign a person described without gender terms their own gender, cf. people who use a single gender generically (i.e. "his"), who were more likely to assign a person that gender. Assuming that because "his" is listed before "her" there is a gender bias is taking things way too far - since language is a linear medium, you have to pick one to be in front, and I think most people understand that it's not trying to give the choices an inherent order.
    - petercooper 14y ago
      Your first paragraph relates to another study that Wikipedia cites: "a study by John Gastil found that while the plural 'they' functions as a generic pronoun for both males and females, males may comprehend 'he/she' in a manner similar to he." "his/her" is a bit of a bugbear of mine in any case, not only for the ordering, but because it lacks cosmetic elegance. "They" is an ideal alternative. It is interesting to note that in most figures of speech, the male variant is listed first. For example, "his and hers", "Mr and Mrs", "he and she", "his/her", "Lords and Ladies". Yet, "ladies and gentleman" is a popular counterexample. Funny stuff this English language! ;-)
- cgs1019 14y ago
phillijw 14y ago
So... what is git-scm? Is it git?
singold 14y ago
Im learning git right now for a project. Because all my life i've used win, im now fighting with git-gui and its ugly interface (because of this, and other reasons related to software development, im considering moving to a linux distro) <br> As a newbie, I really appreciate this move, its good for motivation to learn from the source in a clean and studied format
tar 14y ago
The old website had character. This one just seems like they are trying too hard and has too much noise. Also, I do not like that it just assumes that I'm on a Mac if JavaScript is not enabled. Wouldn't Linux have been a better choice?
- ethereal 14y ago
  I had the same thought about the download link -- it does seem a bit odd. But if you think about it, it does make sense. Very few people will not have JavaScript enabled -- those who do will be web developers or other technologically-minded individuals. I'm sure this is not exactly valid, but . . . it seems to me, at least, that a lot of the time this sort of person is going to be using either Linux or an Apple system. Between the two, AFAIK, a Linux system is far more likely to have git installed already. If not, most would probably want to install it via their distribution's package manager (as the Linux download page actually directs you to do). So it does seem a semi-logical choice. Personally, though -- I would have fallen back to a list of download links for different platforms.
  - tar 14y ago
    Many web developers use Windows and might have their JavaScript disabled. What about them?
    - armandososa 14y ago
      They click the 'Windows build' link. The one with the Windows logo.
voidnothings 14y ago
Humanized!
TOGoS 14y ago
Blows. I miss tree muncher. :(
marshray 14y ago
I'm going to be brutally honest here, but don't worry I'm not a connoisseur of these things! I'm actually probably close to your target audience. I've been using git as a single developer in a very timid way for years. This is my public repo https://github.com/marshray https://github.com/marshray . I know how to 'add' and 'commit -m ...' and 'push'. Anything else I usually have to look up. Just yesterday I actively collaborated for the first time and did a fastforward pull and a merge a few times. Scared me to death I was going to screw something up because we had a hard deadline. When I followed the link on HN, I didn't know what it was. I thought you might be starting a GitHub competitor service. It's a pretty design, but the first two paragraphs I skimmed over. I already know what git is or I wouldn't be on the site. I actually know quite a bit about how git compares to those other products because I've used most of them. But the graph with the stack of books on the right reminds me "gee I know exactly how to do that in Perforce, I wish it would just sink in how to do it with git. The branch diagrams still look like Feynman diagrams to me and I don't know quantum physics". I saw the 'About, Documentation, Downloads, Community'. All very obvious categorizations, but here's was my first impression: About - yes I've figured out by now this is a website about git, and already know what git is about Downloads - I've never downloaded git except via a package manager so this is probably not useful to me Documentation - ok that could be helpful, but I have no sense at this point if it's any good. You know a lot of sites amount to mostly just manpages. Community get involved! - I'm not so invested in git that I would want to join a list about it. I feel grateful for the community because when I have questions a web search usually turns up an appropriate discussion. But usually it's a blog post or stack overflow. I don't recall a mailing list or a forum post being helpful, but probably it has and I've just forgotten. I saw the picture of the book. "Oh yes, the black and yellow publisher" I thought. Its bold colors visually dominated everything else on the page. I suspected that the site may be a guy who wrote a book on git and this is his personal site. I saw all the list of logos of companies using git and thought "I wonder if he got permission for all of those, wow that must have taken a lot of emails". But that's just how my mind works. At this point I closed the page, not having any pressing need to interact or explore the site. I totally didn't notice the Mac on the right hand side. I read the HN discussion a little bit. Mostly I found myself replying to the guy who said the slogan (which I didn't even notice) was reinforcing gender stereotypes. Reading a few more comments it starts to dawn on me: "OH! This is that same git-scm site I think I've been to before. The one that had the good manual on how to use git in some practical situations..." I remembered it fondly, though not very clearly because I wasn't a very frequent visitor. I see someone mention in an HN comment that a Mac appears when Javascript is disabled. I had totally tuned it out before but now it looks ridiculous. Why in the world would the primary choice be to download for Mac? Why would the only other platform download be for Windows? (But it's good to know there may be a supported option for Windows if I ever need it.) To explore further, I click on 'Documentation' as it's the only link that remotely seems like something useful to my forseeable needs. My eyes go to the picture of the book "Reference manual" OK there's the printout of the man pages I guess. Scanning down I see "Getting started, Git basics, ... yawn standard stuff" For some reason, I scroll down a bit. WOW! brightly colored business cards! "Git Basics What is version control?" The title seems useless, but I'm more focused on trying to figure out what these very visually distinctive rectangles are doing below the fold on a table of contents. OH WOW these are Videos! Earlier today I'd had a passing thought about watching some video on git when I was at O'Reilly's site for DRM-free day. They'd had a 6 hour video you could download for $40 or something. That wasn't in my price range, but these videos could be worth watching. So sorry if I didn't pick up on the visual appeal of your redesign, but I hope my best effort at describing the state of my mind in retrospect will be helpful to you or others in your web design endeavors.
josefonseca 14y ago
Coincidentally I accessed this in class earlier today without seeing HN first and thought how amazing it was. I didn't know that it'd gotten a whole new look so recently. Amazing. Congrats to all at Git-SCM, nice job.
ryan-allen 14y ago
"Not your Daddy's version control", looks like the brogrammers got their 2c in.
joeuser12 14y ago
I noticed this report though: https://github.com/github/gitscm-next/issues/45 https://github.com/github/gitscm-next/issues/45
naughtysriram 14y ago
I din't know Microsoft used git. Lolz.
human_error 14y ago
Something is strange. If you go to German version of the book and click "Los geht's", then click "next" and all you see is 500 Internal Server Error. I've checked the French and Dutch version as well, but they don't have that problem. I guess ' creates the problem.
dsirijus 14y ago
Until I read few commentaries over here, I didn't even know what's the site about.
- For_Iconoclasm 14y ago
  Sorry, but it's the website for git. Things have websites. How difficult is that to reason, really? The top of the page explains what git is. Isn't it obvious that the site is git's website? It then lists things which one would expect to find on git's website, including the documentation and download sections. Here are some other websites for things. The front pages also explain what they are and links to more information. * Y Combinator: http://ycombinator.com/ http://ycombinator.com/ * Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/ http://www.ubuntu.com/ * Google Chrome: https://www.google.com/chrome https://www.google.com/chrome I will admit that some websites don't do a great job at this. * Firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/ http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/ Firefox doesn't say what it is. The other websites say that the things are. But git-scm.com? How much more information do you need than "Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency." to realize that it's the website for git, the free and open source distributed version control system? Your comment is not the only one in here like this, but I'm struggling to identify the reason why anybody would consider this website difficult to grok. Sure, it may not have the character of the old website with a monster eating trees, but I really feel that organization and clarity are not issues here.
kimmel 14y ago
As others have already said 'I miss the tree eating blob' and the site had character. The new version obviously had the corporate types in mind. It is clean and optimized to sell it to the pointy haired boss. At first I thought some company had bought and changed the website. Then I realized it is just a cookie cutter template where almost any generic computer program could be plugged in. Then there is the grey color scheme, I see enough websites everyday that have grey color schemes, it is generic and boring. The color scheme before was different and that was a good thing. This constant conformity to sell the corporate and enterprise users on software stinks. Someone going to censor the man pages because it has phrases like this: 'git - the stupid content tracker'?
chris_wot 14y ago
I love this site - except for one thing. When you click on the Next link button on a page such as http://git-scm.com/about http://git-scm.com/about it navigates to the next page - but starts at the bottom! Very, very irritating.
- chris_wot 14y ago
  Just realised this has a bug tracking page. Issue logged: https://github.com/github/gitscm-next/issues/51 https://github.com/github/gitscm-next/issues/51
alinajaf 14y ago
Fantastic work guys, this looks amazing!
jayferd 14y ago
I am disappoint. $ git --distributed-is-the-new-centralized Unknown option: --distributed-is-the-new-centralized usage: git [--version] [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare] [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [-c name=value] [--help] <command> [<args>]
cenonews 14y ago
As someone new to version control, and contrary to some opinions here, it was refreshing to see git represented in such a light. Modern, elegant and easy to use. I'm very curious to watch the videos, if they're what I'm expecting this just might be the time I can get my colleagues to use git. In electrical engineering it's very rare for people to even _know_ what version control is.

The new Git-scm.com

317 points by tanoku 14y ago

kevingadd 14y ago

I mourn the loss of the old awesome tree-munching git monster logo.

Michiel 14y ago
I'm not sure which one you mean, but the new logo looks great and it visualizes the concept of branches quite effectively.
- spacemanaki 14y ago
  The old git-scm.com had this as its header: https://github.com/github/gitscm/raw/master/public/images/header.gif https://github.com/github/gitscm/raw/master/public/images/he...
DannoHung 14y ago
I agree, tree-munch was cute and fun. I wish he were back in some capacity
kzrdude 14y ago
it's a blob committed to munching trees. :-)
dnc 14y ago
It was one of the first things that comes to my mind when I think about cute looking site :).
PommeDeTerre 14y ago
I apologize for the language, but one of my co-workers said that the new logo looks like a penis (the diagonal branch) with a dangling scrotum (the vertical branch) to him. The circles on the end are the glans and the testes. Unfortunately, I do now see what he is saying. This is yet another incident in a long line of easily-misinterpreted open source project logos or names. MongoDB is one of the most significant, with "mongo" being slang for mental retardation in several languages. The scrotwm window manager, while quite excellent, also has a name that's easily misinterpreted.
- icebraining 14y ago
  Git itself has one of those names. Personally I think anyone who is offended by those names can go use something else.
  - praptak 14y ago
    Only in case of Git it is intentional. This is how its creator jokingly describes himself.

lordlicorice 14y ago

Why does it think I have a Mac?

dewski 14y ago
What OS and browser are you on?
- cpeterso 14y ago
  A Mac? ;)
kevingadd 14y ago
That should fix itself if you enable JavaScript. I had the same problem.
- joeyh 14y ago
  I have JavaScript enabled, using chromium, on Debian; it still thinks I have a Mac.

tikhonj 14y ago

I don't know--this one's polished and all, but looks like another startup's landing page more than anything else. The old one was distinctive and had character. I also miss the old logo, even if it didn't make much sense.

mikegerwitz 14y ago
I agree; I feel rather disappointed by this move. The layout feels cookie-cutter to me. If anything, it just looks like an effort to "sell" the project to businesses, especially with the list of projects/companies at the bottom. The no-js default of Mac for the download is also a poor choice, regardless of its popularity, especially considering that Git was created by the author of the kernel Linux. The previous theme was cute, fun and different. This site does, however, do an excellent job of laying out the information (minus the fact that it needs JS when stylesheets are enabled).
- comex 14y ago
  I don't understand why they're even offering a download. If I'm using a Mac and I want to start using git for the first time, chances are the pre-installed git (1.7.7.5, from last December) is the best option.
  - avolcano 14y ago
    Git isn't "pre-installed" on OSX; it comes with XCode. You can be a developer on OSX and not use XCode. It's not common, but it doesn't hurt to offer a download. And, of course, it's not like XCode gets updated every time Git does.
- DanI-S 14y ago
  As a developer who loves using git, I am more than happy for others to go to the effort of selling it to business stakeholders. Why wouldn't I be?
  - mikegerwitz 14y ago

theatrus2 14y ago

Great, except for the tag line. I know they're trying to be trendy, but its not really helping.

lordlicorice 14y ago
I think it's neat. When you refresh the page you get a new one.
Stratego 14y ago
Tag line(s). There's multiple and they're displayed randomly.
davvid 14y ago
I really like git's original tag line: git - the stupid content tracker And, of course, "the information manager from hell", http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2177877 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2177877 I don't know if Linus meant it as a tongue-in-cheek joke, but that last one is pretty funny to me (probably because I read it as "the IT manager from hell", which evokes dilbert).

masnick 14y ago

As someone who has spent a lot of time convincing people to use git and helping them learn, it's great to see resources like this made available for free to the community.

jeltz 14y ago

While good looking I am not sure if the new deign is an improvement. For one the download button is less obvious. The new one is likely to be mistaken for noise, there are too many details around it.

teraflop 14y ago
Also, it's now much harder to find tarballs for Linux. You have to follow the "older releases" link even if you want the most recent version.

mcmire 14y ago

Sexy. I like.

flixic 14y ago

This is great in so many ways: - New logo! Much better "brand" than previous, and look good in small sizes, although I will miss the cute visual pun of GIT letters being refresh, addition and subtraction symbols. Although, both favicon and logo image would look better without half-transparent-pixels in vertical branch. - New font! Adelle from Typekit, not from Google Fonts. They took it seriously, and it's a fantastic choice. - The whole branding and theme and everything is way better than what was before, and arguably the best looking site for any DVCS. (maybe took some design inspiration from http://www.joyent.com/products/ http://www.joyent.com/products/ ?) - Built on Rails, and open sourced: https://github.com/github/gitscm-next https://github.com/github/gitscm-next That's great, and hopefully will allow the community to contribute more to the site itself.

roryokane 14y ago
I made a GitHub Issue for cleaning up the favicon per your suggestion: https://github.com/github/gitscm-next/issues/46 https://github.com/github/gitscm-next/issues/46
demetris 14y ago
“New font! Adelle from Typekit, not from Google Fonts. They took it seriously, and it's a fantastic choice.” To my eyes, it is a poor choice: First, Adelle does not seem to work well for body text. Second, it does not look good on Windows.
- batista 14y ago
  He probably means "a fantastic choice" for people who like or have no problem with good quality fonts, not for outliers. I see no problem with "body text". In fact even tiny sized text on the size is still very legible, like the descriptions of operations in the "About" page.
  - ohgodthecat 14y ago
    No your parent is right, font replacement on windows still looks bad most of the time. Larger font sizes look a little less bad but there still exist rendering issues especially in chrome.

Aqwis 14y ago

I wonder how much it would cost them to buy git.com.

primatology 14y ago
From domainbrokers.com: > The owner might not respond to offers under $299520 Yikes.
- robryan 14y ago
  Seems stupid on the part of the owner, not like they are going to find a big brand that matches the domain so well again and who knows how long domains will be valuable.
- prezjordan 14y ago
  What an ass. He'll never sell it though, so his loss.
schacon 14y ago
Yeah, I've inquired a number of times, it's ridiculous.
- DannoHung 14y ago
  Yikes, 300k? How much would it cost to buy a new TLD?
  - ceejayoz 14y ago
    Actually, that's a fascinating point. I wonder if Github has considered coughing up the the $185k to apply for the .git TLD.
    - marshray 14y ago
      I wonder if anybody has a server on their network named 'git' with which the single label DNS name 'git' as a TLD would conflict?

brcrth 14y ago

I wonder how much awesome free/open source tools/services would benefit from a clean, good design like this.

lukeholder 14y ago
I thought about making a site to allow designers to offer to design things for open source project as a way of giving back.
- RegEx 14y ago
  Stop thinking about it and do it, sounds like a great idea :)
- _pferreir_ 14y ago
  DO IT! ;)

juddlyon 14y ago

Huge improvement! The title tags could use some love, but I'm sure it's been a mad scramble to get the site up.

schacon 14y ago
If you have places where the titles could be better, please let me know at https://github.com/github/gitscm-next/issues https://github.com/github/gitscm-next/issues or send a PR

pwpwp 14y ago

The old one had character.

davvid 14y ago
It's interesting to see how it's progressed. Before git-scm.com there was git.or.cz: http://web.archive.org/web/20080102111752/http://git.or.cz/ http://web.archive.org/web/20080102111752/http://git.or.cz/

mmhd 14y ago

Looks great!

pgbovine 14y ago

curious question: Which projects within Microsoft are using Git? The company is listed as a user on the front page.

mindstab 14y ago
Microsoft codeplex now supports git I believe so the general Microsoft community supports it and that specific MS product uses it now. Presumably some internal projects also use it
__float 14y ago
If you click on the Microsoft logo, you'll be taken to the GitHub profile page for Windows Azure: https://github.com/WindowsAzure https://github.com/WindowsAzure
mkchandler 14y ago
The ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI frameworks use Git (hosted on Codeplex.) Link: http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/ http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/

asb 14y ago

I love the site update. It's very classy there's not even a direct GitHub homepage link, let alone a logo. Is this considered the official Git website? If so, would it not make sense for the domain to be owned by e.g. the SFC on behalf of the Git project?

Seich 14y ago

It looks really nice, I kind of miss the old carefree attitude the site used to have but, it's definitely an improvement.

mccoyst 14y ago

Yeah, I miss domo-kun.

g3orge 14y ago

Proof that Open Source can have beautiful websites.

xbryanx 14y ago

Very nice and clean, but, and I know I'll get boo'ed down for this, it's always a bit tiresome to see gender norms reinforced in slogans like, "--not-your-daddys-version-control."

petercooper 14y ago
And terms like "his/her" which is also in the documentation. The ordering shows a preference that is not necessary. The singular "they" (or the relevant variant) is acceptable in written English, so "their" in this case.
- LeafStorm 14y ago
  Actually, I recently read an article by Khosroshahi which included a study demonstrating that "his/her" does not in fact carry a gender bias -- people who use "his/her" in writing were likely to assign a person described without gender terms their own gender, cf. people who use a single gender generically (i.e. "his"), who were more likely to assign a person that gender. Assuming that because "his" is listed before "her" there is a gender bias is taking things way too far - since language is a linear medium, you have to pick one to be in front, and I think most people understand that it's not trying to give the choices an inherent order.
  - petercooper 14y ago
    Your first paragraph relates to another study that Wikipedia cites: "a study by John Gastil found that while the plural 'they' functions as a generic pronoun for both males and females, males may comprehend 'he/she' in a manner similar to he." "his/her" is a bit of a bugbear of mine in any case, not only for the ordering, but because it lacks cosmetic elegance. "They" is an ideal alternative. It is interesting to note that in most figures of speech, the male variant is listed first. For example, "his and hers", "Mr and Mrs", "he and she", "his/her", "Lords and Ladies". Yet, "ladies and gentleman" is a popular counterexample. Funny stuff this English language! ;-)
cgs1019 14y ago

phillijw 14y ago

So... what is git-scm? Is it git?

singold 14y ago

Im learning git right now for a project. Because all my life i've used win, im now fighting with git-gui and its ugly interface (because of this, and other reasons related to software development, im considering moving to a linux distro) <br> As a newbie, I really appreciate this move, its good for motivation to learn from the source in a clean and studied format

tar 14y ago

The old website had character. This one just seems like they are trying too hard and has too much noise. Also, I do not like that it just assumes that I'm on a Mac if JavaScript is not enabled. Wouldn't Linux have been a better choice?

ethereal 14y ago
I had the same thought about the download link -- it does seem a bit odd. But if you think about it, it does make sense. Very few people will not have JavaScript enabled -- those who do will be web developers or other technologically-minded individuals. I'm sure this is not exactly valid, but . . . it seems to me, at least, that a lot of the time this sort of person is going to be using either Linux or an Apple system. Between the two, AFAIK, a Linux system is far more likely to have git installed already. If not, most would probably want to install it via their distribution's package manager (as the Linux download page actually directs you to do). So it does seem a semi-logical choice. Personally, though -- I would have fallen back to a list of download links for different platforms.
- tar 14y ago
  Many web developers use Windows and might have their JavaScript disabled. What about them?
  - armandososa 14y ago
    They click the 'Windows build' link. The one with the Windows logo.

voidnothings 14y ago

Humanized!

TOGoS 14y ago

Blows. I miss tree muncher. :(

marshray 14y ago

I'm going to be brutally honest here, but don't worry I'm not a connoisseur of these things! I'm actually probably close to your target audience. I've been using git as a single developer in a very timid way for years. This is my public repo https://github.com/marshray https://github.com/marshray . I know how to 'add' and 'commit -m ...' and 'push'. Anything else I usually have to look up. Just yesterday I actively collaborated for the first time and did a fastforward pull and a merge a few times. Scared me to death I was going to screw something up because we had a hard deadline. When I followed the link on HN, I didn't know what it was. I thought you might be starting a GitHub competitor service. It's a pretty design, but the first two paragraphs I skimmed over. I already know what git is or I wouldn't be on the site. I actually know quite a bit about how git compares to those other products because I've used most of them. But the graph with the stack of books on the right reminds me "gee I know exactly how to do that in Perforce, I wish it would just sink in how to do it with git. The branch diagrams still look like Feynman diagrams to me and I don't know quantum physics". I saw the 'About, Documentation, Downloads, Community'. All very obvious categorizations, but here's was my first impression: About - yes I've figured out by now this is a website about git, and already know what git is about Downloads - I've never downloaded git except via a package manager so this is probably not useful to me Documentation - ok that could be helpful, but I have no sense at this point if it's any good. You know a lot of sites amount to mostly just manpages. Community get involved! - I'm not so invested in git that I would want to join a list about it. I feel grateful for the community because when I have questions a web search usually turns up an appropriate discussion. But usually it's a blog post or stack overflow. I don't recall a mailing list or a forum post being helpful, but probably it has and I've just forgotten. I saw the picture of the book. "Oh yes, the black and yellow publisher" I thought. Its bold colors visually dominated everything else on the page. I suspected that the site may be a guy who wrote a book on git and this is his personal site. I saw all the list of logos of companies using git and thought "I wonder if he got permission for all of those, wow that must have taken a lot of emails". But that's just how my mind works. At this point I closed the page, not having any pressing need to interact or explore the site. I totally didn't notice the Mac on the right hand side. I read the HN discussion a little bit. Mostly I found myself replying to the guy who said the slogan (which I didn't even notice) was reinforcing gender stereotypes. Reading a few more comments it starts to dawn on me: "OH! This is that same git-scm site I think I've been to before. The one that had the good manual on how to use git in some practical situations..." I remembered it fondly, though not very clearly because I wasn't a very frequent visitor. I see someone mention in an HN comment that a Mac appears when Javascript is disabled. I had totally tuned it out before but now it looks ridiculous. Why in the world would the primary choice be to download for Mac? Why would the only other platform download be for Windows? (But it's good to know there may be a supported option for Windows if I ever need it.) To explore further, I click on 'Documentation' as it's the only link that remotely seems like something useful to my forseeable needs. My eyes go to the picture of the book "Reference manual" OK there's the printout of the man pages I guess. Scanning down I see "Getting started, Git basics, ... yawn standard stuff" For some reason, I scroll down a bit. WOW! brightly colored business cards! "Git Basics What is version control?" The title seems useless, but I'm more focused on trying to figure out what these very visually distinctive rectangles are doing below the fold on a table of contents. OH WOW these are Videos! Earlier today I'd had a passing thought about watching some video on git when I was at O'Reilly's site for DRM-free day. They'd had a 6 hour video you could download for $40 or something. That wasn't in my price range, but these videos could be worth watching. So sorry if I didn't pick up on the visual appeal of your redesign, but I hope my best effort at describing the state of my mind in retrospect will be helpful to you or others in your web design endeavors.

josefonseca 14y ago

Coincidentally I accessed this in class earlier today without seeing HN first and thought how amazing it was. I didn't know that it'd gotten a whole new look so recently. Amazing. Congrats to all at Git-SCM, nice job.

ryan-allen 14y ago

"Not your Daddy's version control", looks like the brogrammers got their 2c in.

joeuser12 14y ago

I noticed this report though: https://github.com/github/gitscm-next/issues/45 https://github.com/github/gitscm-next/issues/45

naughtysriram 14y ago

I din't know Microsoft used git. Lolz.

human_error 14y ago

Something is strange. If you go to German version of the book and click "Los geht's", then click "next" and all you see is 500 Internal Server Error. I've checked the French and Dutch version as well, but they don't have that problem. I guess ' creates the problem.

dsirijus 14y ago

Until I read few commentaries over here, I didn't even know what's the site about.

For_Iconoclasm 14y ago
Sorry, but it's the website for git. Things have websites. How difficult is that to reason, really? The top of the page explains what git is. Isn't it obvious that the site is git's website? It then lists things which one would expect to find on git's website, including the documentation and download sections. Here are some other websites for things. The front pages also explain what they are and links to more information. * Y Combinator: http://ycombinator.com/ http://ycombinator.com/ * Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/ http://www.ubuntu.com/ * Google Chrome: https://www.google.com/chrome https://www.google.com/chrome I will admit that some websites don't do a great job at this. * Firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/ http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/ Firefox doesn't say what it is. The other websites say that the things are. But git-scm.com? How much more information do you need than "Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency." to realize that it's the website for git, the free and open source distributed version control system? Your comment is not the only one in here like this, but I'm struggling to identify the reason why anybody would consider this website difficult to grok. Sure, it may not have the character of the old website with a monster eating trees, but I really feel that organization and clarity are not issues here.

kimmel 14y ago

As others have already said 'I miss the tree eating blob' and the site had character. The new version obviously had the corporate types in mind. It is clean and optimized to sell it to the pointy haired boss. At first I thought some company had bought and changed the website. Then I realized it is just a cookie cutter template where almost any generic computer program could be plugged in. Then there is the grey color scheme, I see enough websites everyday that have grey color schemes, it is generic and boring. The color scheme before was different and that was a good thing. This constant conformity to sell the corporate and enterprise users on software stinks. Someone going to censor the man pages because it has phrases like this: 'git - the stupid content tracker'?

chris_wot 14y ago

I love this site - except for one thing. When you click on the Next link button on a page such as http://git-scm.com/about http://git-scm.com/about it navigates to the next page - but starts at the bottom! Very, very irritating.

chris_wot 14y ago
Just realised this has a bug tracking page. Issue logged: https://github.com/github/gitscm-next/issues/51 https://github.com/github/gitscm-next/issues/51

alinajaf 14y ago

Fantastic work guys, this looks amazing!

jayferd 14y ago

I am disappoint. $ git --distributed-is-the-new-centralized Unknown option: --distributed-is-the-new-centralized usage: git [--version] [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare] [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [-c name=value] [--help] <command> [<args>]

cenonews 14y ago

As someone new to version control, and contrary to some opinions here, it was refreshing to see git represented in such a light. Modern, elegant and easy to use. I'm very curious to watch the videos, if they're what I'm expecting this just might be the time I can get my colleagues to use git. In electrical engineering it's very rare for people to even _know_ what version control is.