Re @peff's recent ML message, I started playing around with converting this site to be a Jekyll site, so it can be hosted on GitHub Pages instead of heroku. https://github.com/spraints/git-scm.com is the new code, and http://pages-test-git-scm.pickardayune.com/ is the rendered site. So far, I've converted the home page and the "about" pages. My goal is for the pages site to be able to handle all of the same URLs that the current site knows about. Also, I'm not a designer, so I'm also shooting to make the site look exactly identical.

The home page was a fairly mechanical conversion. In the rails app, the "about" page is a single page that rewrites its URLs; I split it up so the links are normal links.

I'll continue to poke at it in my spare time. I'd also accept pull requests 😻 to my gh-pages branch. It should be pretty easy to figure out what needs to be done: find a broken link on http://pages-test-git-scm.pickardayune.com/, and copy content from the rails app in https://github.com/git/git-scm.com to the right place in the jekyll app. Rails helpers need to be changed into flat HTML or liquid tags. I hear that there are man-pages in the current site's database, which may take some more effort to convert.