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From
HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Apr 30, 2005, 00:14 UTC
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<4272CDF1.9060207@zytor.com>

I guess this is technically speaking complete nonstandard addition to git :) but I have added the following to the script that generates http://www.kernel.org/git/:

If there is a plain text file called "description" in the .git directory, it will appear on that webpage.

	-hpa
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