From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Gitolite documentation mkd files?? Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:05:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Howard Miller X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Mar 12 12:06:11 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PyMe7-0002CF-C5 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:06:07 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753446Ab1CLLGB (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Mar 2011 06:06:01 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:41758 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753302Ab1CLLGA (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Mar 2011 06:06:00 -0500 Received: by bwz15 with SMTP id 15so3311879bwz.19 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:05:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent :mime-version:content-type; bh=h50mTjppYbFdFcgLL0+p+zoFWwYdUbZ+yEWdWfhhwtU=; b=wgnrxQ8m6Bi7ZTSL52i91vw8qaLmAyqmtbMOHPSLAp6s09Iv0TGL6zBfi0vuIYvnDW xhH5/cPn4JY7zVFhHrjtm6SPU+4OTw+FGstp39TwcaaGUClZnXvXDwu8XzAuK9gvNoqP VBX+MR0pRpMHIqupiXMmuNW266viU224Bo60E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=Xn46OG+jv9idhLKT4BbyQncqr2qXAThF+01LHYKMPPPHKcJbB3dcJnXMrxh1xntYv0 9GIhsFBDt5eK5XbjrzBTcbaD9EDdXYcFPJc8e8UBy7e9oD1K/MSxbOipHZh+CmniSaaa F8a5S4fgplTfZe14bs0SLMlE7UndFptoBFXGk= Received: by 10.204.154.199 with SMTP id p7mr8570275bkw.114.1299927954667; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:05:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (aeho106.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [79.186.196.106]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k5sm1913200bku.4.2011.03.12.03.05.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:05:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id p2CB5Jkd025628; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:05:29 +0100 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id p2CB53nu025621; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:05:03 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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