improve visibility date of last edit/revision

[nbehrnd]

General overview of your idea.

The pdf file on https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 prominently states e.g., Version 2.1.439, 2024-12-03, the page 2nd Edition (2014). In other words, only after the successful download of the document one can infer the document's maintenance continues to the present day and didn't stop years ago.

What problem will this solve?

I suggest the addition of a note to close this gap. To me, a plausible improvement to the web site's display could be 2nd Edition (2014, last revision by 2024-12-03).

Have you thought about other solutions?

One could provide a note about the last revision in form of Version 2.1.439, or the abbreviated git hash like e.g., 051ae88. But to a human visitor of the web site, presumably without any knowledge about version control in general, and git in particular, these strings are less meaningful, too technical.

Do you want to help with this enhancement idea?

Maybe

[ben]

This is a good idea! But we can't fix it here, this is just the book source. That page is served up in this repo: https://github.com/git/git-scm.com