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

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 03:27:05PM +0800, Fam Zheng 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.
> 
> Reported-by: Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>
> ---
>  README | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>  create mode 120000 README
> 
> diff --git a/README b/README
> new file mode 120000

For anyone wondering what happens on Windows hosts:

On some Windows hosts this file will simply contain the path to
README.md.  This seems okay-ish.

Stefan

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