[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1413) README files misidentified by GitHub

[Vlad Grigorescu (JIRA)]

    [ https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1413?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=23807#comment-23807 ] 

Vlad Grigorescu commented on BIT-1413:
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Here's what I was doing:


{code}
git clone ssh://git.bro.org/capstats.git
cd capstats
git checkout -b topic/bit-1413
ln -s README README.rst
git add README.rst
git commit -m "Add README.rst -> README symlink. Addresses BIT-1413"
git push origin topic/bit-1413
cd ..
{code}

> README files misidentified by GitHub
> ------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BIT-1413
>                 URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1413
>             Project: Bro Issue Tracker
>          Issue Type: Problem
>          Components: Documentation
>            Reporter: Vlad Grigorescu
>            Assignee: Jeannette Dopheide
>            Priority: Low
>             Fix For: 2.5
>
>
> If a README file doesn't have an extension, GitHub will parse it as Markdown. Because our README files are ReST, this results in some ugly (and not very useful) READMEs when visiting the repository on GitHub.
> For example, see: https://github.com/bro/btest#readme
> There are two options we could take to fix this: rename README to README.rst, or create a symlink. I tried out the symlink option here, and I think the result is much more useful: https://github.com/grigorescu/btest#readme
> The affected repos are:
> binpac
> bro
> bro-aux
> bro-plugins
> bro-scripts
> broccoli
> broccoli-perl
> broccoli-python
> broccoli-ruby
> broctl (broctl's README just instructs users to see doc/broctl.rst. This could just be a symlink)
> broker
> bromagic (this can probably be deleted?)
> btest
> capstats
> time-machine
> trace-summary



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