I do not think it is a bad idea to make the top-level README concise and sweet, but this has fallout in Documentation/git.txt which includes README and makes it into the Discussion section. The attached patch on top of yours would resurrect it. --- diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index 93c7024..9f2d242 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -71,14 +71,11 @@ doc.dep : $(wildcard *.txt) build-docdep.perl -include doc.dep -git.7: README - -README: ../README - cp $< $@ +git.7 git.html: git.txt core-intro.txt clean: - rm -f *.xml *.html *.1 *.7 howto-index.txt howto/*.html doc.dep README + rm -f *.xml *.html *.1 *.7 howto-index.txt howto/*.html doc.dep %.html : %.txt asciidoc -b xhtml11 -d manpage -f asciidoc.conf $< @@ -89,8 +86,6 @@ clean: %.xml : %.txt asciidoc -b docbook -d manpage -f asciidoc.conf $< -git.html: git.txt README - glossary.html : glossary.txt sort_glossary.pl cat $< | \ perl sort_glossary.pl | \ diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 6a82803..a0bcef7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ other Discussion[[Discussion]] ------------------------ -include::README[] +include::core-intro.txt[] Authors ------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html