git-scm.com: Heads up: ProGit2 build process is not providing .mobi files for now

Which download is failing?

The link to the latest .mobi files at https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 is gone.

Problem

The .mobi files are gone upstream, and so the link to the .mobi files is too.

Context

The ProGit2 project had to disable .mobi builds with https://github.com/progit/progit2/pull/1497 because the kindlegen gem that we use to generate the .mobi files whenever Travis CI makes a build cannot be downloaded anymore. See https://github.com/progit/progit2/issues/1496 for more on this.

Steps to Reproduce

Go to the https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 once the git-scm site build is refreshed.
Click on the .mobi link.
It will probably break.

Other details

Hi git-scm team, I wanted to provide a heads up for you. I hope I filled the correct issue template! 😄

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Reactions: 1
Comments: 25 (24 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

book2: match ebook release assets by name, not content-type Since progit2 2.1.309 switched to using a GitHub Action to generate releases, it no longer sets the content-type field of the release asset... — committed to git/git-scm.com by peff 3 years ago

Most upvoted comments

I’ve opened a PR upstream at the ProGit2 repository that should re-enable the .mobi files. See https://github.com/progit/progit2/pull/1655, once that’s merged I’ll close this issue.

HonkingGoose on Jun 15, 2021

Yeah, but it’s not working… I’m not sure what I need to do to fix it… 😕

HonkingGoose on Jun 19, 2021

not sure if it’s possible to find out how many accesses to the mobi file there were before this. The url seems to be something like

https://github.com/progit/progit2/releases/download/2.*.*/progit.pdf

I can try to find out during the weekend perharps

pedrorijo91 on Sep 9, 2020

So maybe this takes no action on your side, and the system will just pick up the .mobi files once they are available again.

Yeah, I think that’s what’s supposed to (and will) happen. But thank you very much for letting us know about the situation.

I suppose we could also provide an older version of the .mobi, if somebody feels strongly enough about that format that they’d prefer out-of-date content to using .epub or whatever. But I’d prefer not to get into that unless somebody asks for it.

peff on Sep 1, 2020