Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Symlink README.md as README to unbreak checkpatch.pl

[Stefan Weil]

Am 20.07.2016 um 12:36 schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On 20 July 2016 at 08:27, Fam Zheng <address@hidden> 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 suggest to revert the README rename for the coming new release.
It can be added again later, maybe with a few improvements like
those in my branch https://github.com/stweil/qemu/tree/readme.

For https://github.com/stweil/qemu/blob/readme/README.md,
I removed tab characters, used underlining which also looks
nice without markup formatting, used a uniform notification
for links (so that they actually work as links) and marked
code in the text.

Stefan