From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] Make README more pleasant to read Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 22:22:44 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1456249229-30454-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> <20160224102247.GA21152@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20160225061456.GA3921@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Matthieu Moy , git@vger.kernel.org, emma.westby@gmail.com To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 25 07:22:54 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aYpK8-0002BG-Df for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:22:52 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754196AbcBYGWs (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:22:48 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp0.int.icgroup.com ([208.72.237.35]:60822 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753847AbcBYGWr (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:22:47 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9357648F66; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:22:46 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=wjQdvfrw0RFH2g3A1DD6xTg9Er0=; b=gdiZre mszMebrFZ2KTK78k+HgrwFUmuvKoL+Tw2Kk/9dq8pJIvUIOKHHmUhyNcXthHJPno PfOK62ke2yffjyq3d3lCcXWowwuqs/Z435xcmLH9bWpCDAGj4zusvHFtxsD0HdXo Lm+DngRhv6QNXKTbNJentkKK6hARe5cIMBwtI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=nD+6UwE/bMv9ceVvbQIjY4gaVOSNl+jy uwOx3AabSlRoLNOFO1gATMm2JzX/OEuasQ/XlVUSNkxjqY8pX3Xipw6lgQa0U6E1 1RoO6hYuwZAE83Vd9Ievi2LAAZkuHsEIUwGgkrAGvexTMptfxlEvuL5Em2HTxxpA Ax2i3hiwl5M= Received: from pb-smtp0.int.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B4A748F65; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:22:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.132.1.64]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0ABF548F64; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:22:45 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20160225061456.GA3921@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:14:56 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 2F51618C-DB88-11E5-AD50-79226BB36C07-77302942!pb-smtp0.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King 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.