1.3.5 Branch, Edit, Commit, Merge

we’ll edit it to make it a little more descriptive. I prefer the
Markdown markup language to the default RDoc for this purpose, and if
you use the file extension .md then GitHub will automatically format it
nicely for you. So, first we’ll use Git’s version of the Unix mv
(“move”) command to change the name, and then fill it in with the
contents of Listing 1.8:

$ git mv README.rdoc README.md
$ subl README.md

Listing 1.8: The new README file, README.md.

This is the first application for the
[*Ruby on Rails Tutorial*](http://railstutorial.org/)
by [Michael Hartl](http://michaelhartl.com/).