On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 06:34:26 -0700 (PDT)
"Edward K. Ream" <edream...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Saturday, July 8, 2017 at 12:50:22 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote:
> >
> > On Sunday, July 2, 2017 at 6:32:34 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote:
> >
> > > Changing README.MD seems to be the simplest way to keep track of
> > > the 
> > purpose and status of a branch. 
> >
> > Alas, merging a branch into master over-writes the readme file in
> > master. Naturally, this can be undone, but if it *isn't* undone it
> > is a bother to restore the readme file.
> >
> 
> There is a simple workaround. Don't *replace* the standard readme,
> *add *the branch description *in front of* the standard readme file.
> That way, if someone mistakenly merges a branch's readme, it will be
> easy to "recover" the standard readme by deleting the branch
> description.

One option:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/3970442/1072212

another approach:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/16455853/1072212

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