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by dzek69 884 days ago
i liked seeing README immediately. I don't care that much for files list, source code. But README is the essence of what I'm looking for usually
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I dunno, I semi-frequently want to look for a handful of files beyond the readme - license for obvious reasons, Dockerfile often tells me a lot about how to actually compile a thing, a handful of language-specific files indicate ex. what compiler version it needs. (Though I agree it's a pretty hard 80/20 rule with the readme being most of the value, then a tiny handful being the next 80% of the remaining value)