On 07/20/16 20:07, John Snow wrote: > On 07/20/2016 08:31 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 07/20/2016 04:48 AM, Stefan Weil wrote: >>> Am 20.07.2016 um 12:36 schrieb Peter Maydell: >>>> On 20 July 2016 at 08:27, Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> wrote: >>>>> Commit e5dfc5e8e71 renamed README to README.md but >>>>> scripts/checkpatch.pl still looks for the old name to sanity check >>>>> that it's invoked from the toplevel of tree. Create a symbol link to >>>>> README.md to fix that. I've verified that on github README.md still >>>>> takes precedence and page is rendered. >>>> Have you checked that the symlink does sensible things if the git tree >>>> is checked out under Windows? thanks -- PMM >>> >>> >>> ... and that the Windows installer will get a working README, not only a >>> symlink? >>> You could move README.md to README and link that to README.md >>> (as suggested by Paolo) - that would avoid such problems. >> >> I would favor README as the real file, and README.md as the symlink. The > > Will Github DTRT?
Well, I don't know whether GitHub will always do the right thing, but in this case it does, see my test here: https://github.com/stweil/qemu/tree/readme Stefan
