Re: Lua source code history now available

[Daurnimator <quae@...>]

On 5 December 2016 at 01:00, Paul Merrell <marbux@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com> wrote:
>> At the workshop this year I spoke about my efforts to convert the
>> historical source code of lua into git form.
>> I finally put the last pieces together (sorry! I promised it by
>> october...) and have now pushed the results to github.
>>
>> It's split into 4 repositories:
>>
>>   - Main source: https://github.com/lua/lua
>>   - Tests: https://github.com/lua/tests
>>   - luac: https://github.com/lua/luac
>>   - manual: https://github.com/lua/manual
>>
>> See my talk's notes: https://www.lua.org/wshop16/Daurnimator.pdf
>>
>
> I think this is great too. But a readme at the top and for each branch
> page would be nice. I saw no description of the git's content
> anywhere, not even a note that this list's archives need to be
> searched for the content's description. There will be people down the
> line who didn't read your post and they'll be left to wonder what it
> is they're looking at.

The repository contents themselves is the actual repository contents
of lua. It should not contain such a README.
The best github lets me do is change the repository description at the
top of the page.
However, what should I put?