From c481fb53fed237d109528fb3bc4fe95f821d3e65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 14:33:29 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] README.md: Document the syntax used in the README

Explain that the file is written in Markdown, and link to the Markdown
spec and GitHub's markup parsing docs.

After adjusting README.md in my text editor, I compared my working
directory with the index using:

  $ git diff

That looked reasonable, so I committed all the modifications using:

  $ git commit --all

The `--all` option tells Git to automatically stage any modifications
or deletions.  I could have used the following:

  $ git add README.md
  $ git commit

and achieved the same result.  Some people like to stage changes
explicitly, and some like to stage them automatically.  Pick whichever
works best for you.
---
 README.md | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8cd0c73..bbd45fb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
 Show how project development generally works in [Git][].
 
+Markup
+======
+
+This file is written in [Markdown][], a popular markup language.  The
+`.md` extension is a hint so renderers like [GitHub][] can format it
+appropriately.
+
 
 [Git]: http://www.git-scm.com/
+[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
+[GitHub]: https://github.com/github/markup#markups
-- 
2.26.2