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Readme.txt vs. README.txt (2015)
I have just forked a project in Github, made my changes etc. This got me wondering: I see mostly README.txt in opensource projects and the file I edited was Readme.txt. Is this some sort of
Others are INSTALL(instructions for building and installing the software), AUTHORS(list of contributors), COPYING(license text), HACKING(how to get started for contributing, maybe including a TODO list of starting points), NEWS(recent changes) or ChangeLog(mostly redundant with version control systems). Avoid using more complicated markup languages like HTML in the README file, however, because it should be convenient to read on a text-only terminal. You can point users to the manual of the software or its on-line documentation, that might be written in a more sophisticated format, for details from the README file.
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