What file types does GitHub support for README's

Question

I have noticed that many different file types are used for GitHub READMEs. The most common ones are .md and .rst

After looking at the GitHub documentation and the help page I found no information on which file types are allowed.

I am just looking for a list of the types so I can figure out which types I can use for my next README.

Answer 1

GitHub uses its own Markup library to render files like READMEs. It supports:

• Markdown
• Textile
• RDoc
• Org
• Creole
• MediaWiki
• Restructured Text
• AsciiDoc
• Perl Pod