Include development info and re-shuffle home/about pages

The information to spin up the site locally got buried inside
_includes/README in a recent change. It actually belongs to the
README present in the root of the repo, too since that is what users
see when viewing the repository. Hence, move that information there.

The "About" page has long been very identical to the home page. So,
shuffle the content in home and about pages and unify them into
the Home page itself. For historical purposes, make the about page
redirect to the homepage.

Fixes git#610

Author: sivaraam

Gemfile

@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ gem 'github-pages', group: :jekyll_plugins
 
 # gem "webrick", "~> 1.7" # N.B. we may not want to fix this Gemfile to Ruby 3
 gem "webrick"
+gem 'jekyll-redirect-from'

README.md

@@ -11,6 +11,25 @@
 
 - These pages are intended to be edited collaboratively (i.e., it is an alternative to us having a wiki, but one that is edited entirely via Git pushes).
 
+  You could also send your changes as patches by email to Christian Couder < <[email protected]> > / Kaartic Sivaraam < <[email protected]> > (and feel free to cc [email protected] if appropriate).
+
+
+### Development
+
+If you wish to spin up the site locally, you could follow the steps below.
+
+* Make sure you've got ruby2 with dev-packages installed
+* `sudo gem install bundler`
+* Clone this repo
+* `sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev` # [
+  [ref](http://www.nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html#ubuntu___debian)
+  ]
+* `bundle install`
+* `bundle exec jekyll serve`
+* browse the site on http://localhost:4000
+
+Based on https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-with-pages/
+
 
 <br>
 

_config.yml

@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 name: Git Developer Pages
 permalink: /rev_news/:year/:month/:day/:title/
+plugins:
+  - jekyll-redirect-from

_includes/README.md

@@ -1,41 +1,22 @@
-# About Git Developer Pages
-
-This is a website to help Git Developers.
-
-It is NOT a place to discuss Git issues. Please see
-[git-scm.org's community page](https://git-scm.com/community)
-for information about bug reporting or interacting with the
-community.
-
-The pages are maintained by editing files in the
-[git/git.github.io](https://github.com/git/git.github.io) repository on
-GitHub. It is then published on the
-[https://git.github.io](https://git.github.io) GitHub page.
-
-It is meant to be edited collaboratively like a wiki, except that
-instead of a web form, you get to use a text editor and Git. What could
-be better?
-
-These pages also host the [Git Rev News](https://git.github.io/rev_news/),
-see the [About Git Rev News](https://git.github.io/rev_news/rev_news/) page.
-
-If you want push access, contact Christian Couder
-< <[email protected]> > or Taylor Blau < <[email protected]> > and
-provide your GitHub username. You may also send patches by mail (and
-feel free to cc [email protected] if appropriate).
-
-
-# Development
-
-* Make sure you've got ruby2 with dev-packages installed
-* `sudo gem install bundler`
-* Clone this repo
-* `sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev` # ref [1]
-* `bundle install`
-* `bundle exec jekyll serve`
-* browse the site on http://localhost:4000
-
-Based on https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-with-pages/
-
-[1] http://www.nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html#ubuntu___debian
-
+This is a website for information on Git development. If you stumbled into this
+by mistake, you may want:
+  - Information on running Git and links to download the latest version from
+    [HERE](https://git-scm.com/)
+  - Wiki that has historically contained developer information from
+    [HERE](https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page)
+
+These pages are intended to collect information useful to Git developers. This
+is also the web home of:
+  - the [Hacking Git](https://git.github.io/Hacking-Git/) page,
+  - the [Git Rev News newsletter](https://git.github.io/rev_news/),
+  - the [involvement of the Git project in mentoring
+    programs](https://git.github.io/General-Application-Information/) like
+    [Outreachy](https://www.outreachy.org/) and the [GSoC (Google Summer of
+    Code)](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/)
+
+These pages are intended to be edited collaboratively (i.e., it is an
+alternative to us having a wiki, but one that is edited entirely via Git pushes.
+The [repository](https://github.com/git/git.github.io) could be found on GitHub.
+You could also send your changes as patches by email to Christian Couder <
+<[email protected]> > / Kaartic Sivaraam < <[email protected]> >
+(and feel free to cc [email protected] if appropriate).

_includes/navbar.html

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <div id="navbar" class="navbar">
   <ul>
     <li><a href="/">Home</a>
-    <li><a href="/about">About</a>
     {% for node in site.pages reversed %}
       {% if node.navbar != false and node.title %}
       <li><a href="{{node.url}}">{{node.title}}</a>

about.html

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+permalink: /about
+redirect_to:
+  - /
+---
+
+<!-- Used to exist but most information was just redundant to the homepage. So, redirect. -->

about.md

@@ -6,24 +6,4 @@ navbar: false
 
 # {{ page.title }}
 
-This is a website for information on Git development. If you
-stumbled into this by mistake, you may want:
-
-  - <http://git-scm.com>, which has information on running
-    Git and links to download the latest version
-
-  - <http://git.wiki.kernel.org>, the wiki that has historically
-    contained developer information
-
-These pages are intended to collect information useful to Git
-developers. This is also the web home of:
-
-  - the [Hacking Git](https://git.github.io/Hacking-Git/) page,
-  - the [Git Rev News newsletter](https://git.github.io/rev_news/),
-  - the [involvement of the Git project in mentoring programs](https://git.github.io/General-Application-Information/)
-    like [Outreachy](https://www.outreachy.org/) and the
-    [GSoC (Google Summer of Code)](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/)
-
-These pages are intended to be edited collaboratively (i.e., it is an
-alternative to us having a wiki, but one that is edited entirely via Git
-pushes).
+{% include README.md %}