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[PATCH] Documentation: add a README file

From
Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Date
Mar 21, 2013, 13:45 UTC
Message-ID
<1363873555-8274-1-git-send-email-ydroneaud@opteya.com>

The documentation is in AsciiDoc format: it should be written somewhere with links to AsciiDoc documentation so that it became easy to find how to write documentation for Git.

Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
---
 Documentation/README | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/README
diff --git a/Documentation/README b/Documentation/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c41734c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/README
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Documentation
+=============
+
+Most of the Git documentation is in AsciiDoc format,
+a lightweight markup text language.
+
+AsciiDoc formatted files can be translated to man pages,
+HTML, DocBook or PDF documents.
+
+See:
+- http://asciidoc.org/
+- https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/AsciiDoc
+
-- 
1.7.11.7
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