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Re: Gitolite documentation mkd files??

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Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk>
Date
Mar 12, 2011, 11:21 UTC
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On 12 March 2011 11:05, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk> writes:
>
>> I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to ask...
>>
>> What's the story with '.mkd' files in which the docs are written for
>> Gitolite? I would normally just check Google, but that doesn't seem to
>> have heard of them either. What is there that reads them properly?
>> It's only a minor inconvenience but I'm really just interested to
>> know.
>
> Those are files in Markdown[1] format, a lightweight document markup
> language.  GitHub renders it to HTML automatically.  It is supposed to
> be readable also in un-formatted form.
>
Oh right! I remember that. I didn't realise anybody still used it :) Thanks!
It is perfectly readable - I just wondered what it was.
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