# Gitolite documentation mkd files?? 3 messages from 2011-03-12 to 2011-03-12. Participants: Howard Miller, Jakub Narebski. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/26720 ## Howard Miller, 2011-03-12 09:32 Subject: Gitolite documentation mkd files?? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTimQOzw-TYPO9ue3D_a0J8toFQZR4GDgoc2n2iin%40mail.gmail.com ``` 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. Thanks. ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2011-03-12 11:05 Subject: Re: Gitolite documentation mkd files?? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m3y64k61lt.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: ``` 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. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git ``` ## Howard Miller, 2011-03-12 11:21 Subject: Re: Gitolite documentation mkd files?? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTinu8kyQF20OALWZbUeQ0BO4Em3%2BZUZgVa6OCsqM%40mail.gmail.com 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. ```