From: Howard Miller Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:21:13 GMT Subject: Re: Gitolite documentation mkd files?? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 12 March 2011 11:05, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Howard Miller 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.