Broken links in video/quick-wins

[dlwlb]

Numerous links are broken in the video graphics of Git Basics Episode 4, Quick Wins with Git (https://git-scm.com/video/quick-wins). See #957 for links in text.

• progit.org/book/ch*-*.html links (4) report 502 Bad Gateway
• http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests link at 2:25 redirects to docs.github.com then says page doesn't exist.
• http://whygitisbetterthanx.com link at 4:00 error ERR_CONNECTION_RESET

[dlwlb]

In case it helps to find replacements, here are the full links in context.

• Content, not files: http://progit.org/book/ch6-2.html
• Opt in, not opt-out: http://progit.org/book/ch2-2.html
• Open, not locked: http://progit.org/book/ch5-2.html
• Distributed, not centralized: http://progit.org/book/ch5-1.html
• Conversations, not cutoffs: http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests
• Anywhere, not just online: http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/#everything-is-local

[pedrorijo91]

thank you for reporting this @dlwlb . Unfortunately we don't have control over the video content in order to update it.

I wonder if videos are not too much outdated, or if visitors find them interesting...

[dlwlb]

@pedrorijo91 I am new to git and found them helpful, and would have wanted to read more from the links, especially to understand what was meant by the "Conversations" win.

[dlwlb]

If the video's links aren't fixed, a workaround might be to provide a comments area beneath where corrected links could be posted by community members.

[pedrorijo91]

I think the best solution may be to contact through the original video source (vimeo comments maybe?). For instance: https://vimeo.com/41027679

maybe the author is willing to update the videos. (to be honest I don't find it very likely - the video is from 8 years ago, he may have changed jobs, career, or simply not having the original video project to modify it)

[rimrul]

The Author does seem to still work at github, so maybe we can convince them.

@matthewmccullough do you still have the old files for this video series and/or would you be interested in creating an updated version?

[rimrul]

• progit.org/book/ch*-*.html links (4) report 502 Bad Gateway

Those should still roughly correlate with the corresponding chapters of the second edition of the book (chapter 6 became chapter 7)

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

• http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests link at 2:25 redirects to docs.github.com then says page doesn't exist.

I think the closest modern option is

https://docs.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/about-pull-requests

• Anywhere, not just online: http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/#everything-is-local

The source for that page is still on github:

https://github.com/schacon/whygitisbetter/blob/master/index.html#L177

[pedrorijo91]

closing as it's a bit out of our control