Why won't my README.md show in the Overview?

[Keith]

I have a project with a repository root that looks like this:

├── bitbucket-pipelines.yml
├── DEPENDENCIES
├── DEV_DEPENDENCIES
├── project_dir
├── README.md
├── requirements.txt
└── Vagrantfile

I have a README.md file in the repository root, and yet it does not display in the overview.

When I try to create a README through the bitbucket interface it tells me that A file with this name already exists".

I know that I can just copy the contents of the README.md file and paste it into the online editor and re-create a (presumably) detectable README.md file that way, but I want to know if there's another way to correct this problem.

[Keith]

This is going to sound ridiculous, but the README.md file currently in the repository is emtpy. I suppose that is why it isn't detected.