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Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] Make README more pleasant to read

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 25, 2016, 06:14 UTC
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<20160225061456.GA3921@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 02:37:05PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 06:40:24PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> >
> >>  README => README.md | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
> >>  t/t7001-mv.sh       |  2 +-
> >
> > I do not overly care, but I wonder if it would be nice to keep README as
> > a symlink.
> 
> I can add it if people want to see it, but we already have so many files
> at the root, I'd rather avoid adding duplicates through symlinks.

That's reasonable. I thought it might appease the "I use `less README` to view the README" crowd, but it is probably not that hard to find the `.md` variant.

-Peff
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Message 18 of 25 in “Make README more pleasant to read”
  1. 0/5 Make README more pleasant to readMatthieu Moy, Feb 23, 2016
  2. 1/5 README: use markdown syntaxMatthieu Moy, Feb 23, 2016
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2016
  4. Matthieu MoyFeb 23, 2016
  5. Johannes SchindelinFeb 24, 2016
  6. Jeff KingFeb 24, 2016
  7. 2/5 README.md: add hyperlinks on filenamesMatthieu Moy, Feb 23, 2016
  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2016
  9. Matthieu MoyFeb 23, 2016
  10. 3/5 README.md: move the link to git-scm.com upMatthieu Moy, Feb 23, 2016
  11. 4/5 README.md: don't call git stupid in the titleMatthieu Moy, Feb 23, 2016
  12. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2016
  13. Matthieu MoyFeb 23, 2016
  14. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2016
  15. 5/5 README.md: move down historical explanation about the nameMatthieu Moy, Feb 23, 2016
  16. Jeff KingFeb 24, 2016
  17. Matthieu MoyFeb 24, 2016
  18. Jeff KingFeb 25, 2016
  19. Junio C HamanoFeb 25, 2016
  20. 0/5 Make README more pleasant to readMatthieu Moy, Feb 25, 2016
  21. 1/5 README: use markdown syntaxMatthieu Moy, Feb 25, 2016
  22. 2/5 README.md: add hyperlinks on filenamesMatthieu Moy, Feb 25, 2016
  23. 3/5 README.md: move the link to git-scm.com upMatthieu Moy, Feb 25, 2016
  24. 4/5 README.md: don't call git stupid in the titleMatthieu Moy, Feb 25, 2016
  25. 5/5 README.md: move down historical explanation about the nameMatthieu Moy, Feb 25, 2016

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