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Re: Gitolite documentation mkd files??

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 12, 2011, 11:05 UTC
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Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk> writes:
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> 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.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
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