What is the difference between README and README md in GitHub projects

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I ve noticed some GitHub projects have not only a README file  but also a README md file   What is the difference between these files  I know README serves also as introductory text in the project repository page but I have no idea what README md does

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md extension stands for Markdown  which Github uses  among others  to format those files   Read about Markdown   http   daringfireball net projects markdown   http   en wikipedia org wiki Markdown  Also   http   github github com github-flavored-markdown

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README md or  mkdn or  markdown denotes that the file is markdown formatted  Markdown is a markup language  With it you can easily display headers or have italic words  or bold or almost anything that can be done to text

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md stands for markdown and is generated at the bottom of your github page as html   Typical syntax includes   Will become a heading                 Will become a sub heading --------------   This will be Italic     This will be Bold    - This will be a list item - This will be a list item      Add a indent and this will end up as code   For more details  http   daringfireball net projects markdown

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md is markdown   README md is used to generate the html summary you see at the bottom of projects   Github has their own flavor of Markdown   Order of Preference  If you have two files named README and README md  the file named README md is preferred  and it will be used to generate github s html summary     FWIW  Stack Overflow uses local Markdown modifications as well  also see Stack Overflow s C  Markdown Processor

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