Welcome to the second edition of the Pro Git book.

You can find this book online at: https://git-scm.com/book

Like the first edition, the second edition of Pro Git is open source under a Creative Commons license.

A couple of things have changed since open sourcing the first edition. For one, we’ve moved from Markdown to the amazing AsciiDoc format for the text of the book; here’s an AsciiDoc quick reference.

We’ve also moved to keeping the translations in separate repositories rather than subdirectories of the English repository. See the translating document for more information.

You can generate the e-book files manually with Asciidoctor. If you run the following you may actually get HTML, Epub, Mobi and PDF output files:

You can generate just one of the supported formats (HTML, EPUB, mobi, or PDF). Use one of the following commands:

To generate the HTML book:

To generate the EPUB book:

To generate the mobi book:

To generate the PDF book:

Before signaling an issue, please check that there isn’t already a similar one in the bug tracking system.

Also, if this issue has been spotted on the git-scm.com site, please cross-check that it is still present in this repo. The issue may have already been corrected, but the changes have not been deployed yet.

If you’d like to help out by making a change, take a look at the contributor’s guide.