[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8251551: Use .md filename extension for README

[George Adams]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 17:35:04 GMT, Andrew John Hughes <andrew at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Backports https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8251551 as it's a low-risk change and generally improves the readability/usability in GitHub.
>> 
>> Currently, I've just converted the README to markdown format and added a little syntax highlighting. I'm not sure if people would like me to go one step further and rip out the mercurial/nested repo references?
>
> I've opened #79 for the first of these. Once both are in, you should be able to just do this change cleanly.

Adding a comment to prevent this from closing. @gnu-andrew is your other patch ready yet?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/75