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Same here. While I was browsing themes I figured it WOULD put the README there, but I had to go back and edit everything after I published.

Heh, seems like you beat me to the punch by 2min both here and there.

It seems like defaulting to readme content would make to many assumptions about the content of your readme.

Basically, it should just wrap the HTML generated from markdown (if readme is markdown) in some theme.

And oif your readme.md is merely:

"GPL Licensed"

The preview page will be much less impressive. As it is the preview page has enough lorem ipsum to give the user a feel for the theme.

Good point.

My thoughts exactly. I posted a comment to that effect.

I think it's because it's a separate branch, but yeah, it would probably make sense to just pull the readme from master.

Indeed. I've used http://rthauby.github.com/Paige/ for a few projects; it's a simple npm project that generates documentation from your readme file.