HonKit: A Fork of GitBook

Nobody is going to confuse Git with GitBook... GitHub on the other hand... But Linus Torvalds as savage as he is with crappy vendor code he is a reasonable guy.

Re: HonKit: A Fork of GitBook

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Post by asicsp » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 6:40 AM UTC

See also mdBook [0] for another alternative to Gitbook

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook

Re: HonKit: A Fork of GitBook

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Post by JimDabell » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 7:08 AM UTC

For those who weren’t aware, this is the reason behind the fork:

> As the efforts of the GitBook team are focused on the GitBook.com platform, the CLI is no longer under active development.

— https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook#%EF%B8%8F-deprecation-w...

Re: HonKit: A Fork of GitBook

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Post by creato » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 7:26 AM UTC

I just spent a few minutes reading the readme, and I still can't figure out why this tool (or GitBook) is directly connected to git. OK, a bunch of markdown and json files in folders form a book. How is this connected to git?

I totally get storing the markdown files/folders in git, but surely any other version control system would be fine too?

Re: HonKit: A Fork of GitBook

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Post by suyash » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 7:28 AM UTC

This is much needed as GitBook moved away from Book publishing and abandoned open source spirit.