Windows GitHub app not detecting README
github, local, windows
Solution
I encountered this exact problem and was able to fix it.
It seems like our problem is caused by the same known issue that causes this one: GitHub for Windows is showing old README text.
The response there was
Yeah, sorry about that. It's a bug and we're working on it. It's currently cached for 30 minutes and sometimes it doesn't expire when it should.
The only way to force a refresh currently is to either delete the entire folder at `%LocalAppData%\GitHub\BlobCache.api.github.com` or to locate the file in that folder that holds the README content (by looking for keywords that would appear in the README for example) and deleting that.
To fix our issue, I deleted the cache content at `User\AppData\Local\GitHub`. I then restarted the official native Windows 8 GitHub application. The current readme text showed (and the warning that I had "no readme" disappeared).
Problem
I published my `README.md` via the GitHub website but when I try to sync all my local repos, it doesn't seem to detect the `README.md` file. However, it does download it to the local folder and is viewable within Windows explorer.