Comment by benatkin
16 years ago
I have a hard time thinking seriously about this, because all I can think of right now are those repos on GitHub that have nothing but a README file.
16 years ago
I have a hard time thinking seriously about this, because all I can think of right now are those repos on GitHub that have nothing but a README file.
They obviously haven't gotten to step two... writing the code.
sudo apt-get install readme-compiler
(declarative programming for the rest of us!)
That's a full third of my repos. :)
Sweet!
Reminds me of another gripe I have: Rails puts a README in the generated app directory. It's not worth it IMO. I wish they'd get rid of it or change the name, or failing that, GitHub would detect unmodified Rails READMEs and screen them out.
By the way, I think abandoned README-only repos are a side effect of something useful - attempting to start new projects on the right foot. I think starting projects like this probably does more good than harm, overall. :)