This is great in so many ways:<p>- 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.<p>- New font! Adelle from Typekit, not from Google Fonts. They took it seriously, and it's a fantastic choice.<p>- 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 <a href="http://www.joyent.com/products/" rel="nofollow">http://www.joyent.com/products/</a> ?)<p>- Built on Rails, and open sourced: <a href="https://github.com/github/gitscm-next" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/github/gitscm-next</a> That's great, and hopefully will allow the community to contribute more to the site itself.
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.
As others have already said 'I miss the tree eating blob' and the site had character.<p>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.<p>Someone going to censor the man pages because it has phrases like this: 'git - the stupid content tracker'?
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.
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."
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?
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.<p>I've been using git as a single developer in a very timid way for years. This is my public repo <a href="https://github.com/marshray" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/marshray</a> . 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.<p>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".<p>I saw the 'About, Documentation, Downloads, Community'. All very obvious categorizations, but here's was my first impression:<p>About - yes I've figured out by now this is a website about git, and already know what git is about<p>Downloads - I've never downloaded git except via a package manager so this is probably not useful to me<p>Documentation - ok <i>that</i> 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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>At this point I closed the page, not having any pressing need to interact or explore the site.<p>I totally didn't notice the Mac on the right hand side.<p>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.<p>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.)<p>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"<p>For some reason, I scroll down a bit. WOW! brightly colored business cards! "<i>Git Basics</i> 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.<p>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.
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.
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?
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.
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)
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As a newbie, I really appreciate this move, its good for motivation to learn from the source in a clean and studied format
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.
I love this site - except for one thing. When you click on the Next link button on a page such as <a href="http://git-scm.com/about" rel="nofollow">http://git-scm.com/about</a> it navigates to the next page - but starts at the bottom! Very, very irritating.
Coincidentally I accessed this in class earlier today without seeing HN first and thought how amazing it was.<p>I didn't know that it'd gotten a whole new look so recently. Amazing. Congrats to all at Git-SCM, nice job.