From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 06:22:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] Make README more pleasant to read
Message-ID: <xmqqr3g1pavf.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160225061456.GA3921@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> > 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.

Well, "less README" folks would not be happy with a mere symbolic
link anyway--things like [INSTALL][] are pure eyesore and regression
relative to the straight text version.

I do not overly care, either.  I do not think people would complain
too much about the eyesore as long as the file is named README.md,
so in that sense, we'd be better off not having such a symbolic
link.