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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
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+Subject: [PATCH] doc: add README.md especially for github\r
+Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:27:09 +0200\r
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+Apparently README.md overrides README, so this will show up instead of\r
+our generic README on github.\r
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+If the user is already on github, then clicking a link for more\r
+information is not a hardship.\r
+---\r
+ README.md | 15 +++++++++++++++\r
+ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)\r
+ create mode 100644 README.md\r
+\r
+diff --git a/README.md b/README.md\r
+new file mode 100644\r
+index 0000000..ce579d8\r
+--- /dev/null\r
++++ b/README.md\r
+@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@\r
++If you're reading this on github.com, this is a read-only mirror of\r
++the notmuch project.\r
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