Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Aug 29 2018 - 12:20:35 EST


On Wed, 2018-08-29 at 14:28 +0200, Henrik Austad wrote:
> The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present
> in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their
> usefulness is brought into question.
>
> A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer
> needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
> it is time to just throw them out.

Good idea.

.rst is becoming more common and these 00-INDEX files
are unnecessary and occasionally misleading.