Errata

Introducing GitHub

Errata for Introducing GitHub

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
PDF chapter 2

SUGGESTION: move chapter 2 (Viewing) to end of book. Nobody cares about chart and graphs and page layouts. What people want to know is how they can (properly) checkout code and start using it. Next we want to know how to fix code and contribute back. Tell that story FIRST.

Rick Evans  Sep 14, 2014 
PDF Page 79
1st Paragraph

"Any other characters will be replaces with a hyphen." Change "replaces" with "replaced".

Chris Diraddo  Sep 02, 2014 
PDF Page 79
3rd paragraph

The last sentence of the 3rd paragraph states "When you so so it’ll take you to the new repository form as shown in Figure 1." However it seems the first "so" is really supposed be "do".

Scott Wong  Oct 21, 2014 
PDF Page 87
1st Paragraph

Software misspelled on 2nd line

Chris Diraddo  Sep 02, 2014 
PDF Page 89
1st Paragraph

The first sentence misspelled software as "softwae".

Scott Wong  Oct 21, 2014 
PDF Page 118
1st Paragraph

Reference to "Mac" in Windows section.

Chris Diraddo  Sep 02, 2014 
ePub Page 138
Paragraph of text below figure 5-13

In the paragraph of text below Figure 5-13, in the chapter "Integrating with other systems", "software" is spelt incorrectly as "softwae".

PS. Getting a lot out of this, understanding both why and how to use GitHub. thanks.

Ben Hamilton  Sep 11, 2014