Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] Make README more pleasant to read

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

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I do not overly care, but I wonder if it would be nice to keep README as
a symlink.

I can add it if people want to see it, but we already have so many files
at the root, I'd rather avoid adding duplicates through symlinks.

That's reasonable. I thought it might appease the "I use `less README`
to view the README" crowd, but it is probably not that hard to find the
`.md` variant.

Well, "less README" folks would not be happy with a mere symbolic
link anyway--things like [INSTALL][] are pure eyesore and regression
relative to the straight text version.

I do not overly care, either.  I do not think people would complain
too much about the eyesore as long as the file is named README.md,
so in that sense, we'd be better off not having such a symbolic
link.