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+Bugs Everywhere
+===============
+
+This is Bugs Everywhere (BE), a bugtracker built on distributed version
+control.  It works with Bazaar, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, and Monotone
+at the moment, but is easily extensible.  It can also function with no
+VCS at all.
+
+The idea is to package the bug information with the source code, so that
+bugs can be marked "fixed" in the branches that fix them.  So, instead of
+numbers, bugs have globally unique ids.
+
+
+Getting BE
+==========
+
+BE is available as a Git repository::
+
+    $ git clone https://gitlab.com/bugseverywhere/bugseverywhere.git be
+
+See the homepage_ for details.  If you do branch the Git repo, you'll
+need to run::
+
+    $ make
+
+to build some auto-generated files (e.g. ``libbe/_version.py``), and::
+
+    $ make install
+
+to install BE.  By default BE will install into your home directory,
+but you can tweak the ``INSTALL_OPTIONS`` variable in ``Makefile``
+to install to another location.
+
+.. _homepage: http://bugseverywhere.org/
+
+
+Getting started
+===============
+
+To get started, you must set the bugtracker root.  Typically, you will want to
+set the bug root to your project root, so that Bugs Everywhere works in any
+part of your project tree.::
+
+    $ be init -r $PROJECT_ROOT
+
+To create bugs, use ``be new $DESCRIPTION``.  To comment on bugs, you
+can can use ``be comment $BUG_ID``.  To close a bug, use
+``be close $BUG_ID`` or ``be status $BUG_ID fixed``.  For more
+commands, see ``be help``.  You can also look at the usage examples in
+``test_usage.sh``.
+
+
+Documentation
+=============
+
+If ``be help`` isn't scratching your itch, the full documentation is
+available in the doc directory as reStructuredText_ .  You can build
+the full documentation with Sphinx_ , convert single files with
+docutils_ , or browse through the doc directory by hand.
+``doc/index.txt`` is a good place to start.  If you do use Sphinx,
+you'll need to install numpydoc_ for automatically generating API
+documentation.  See the ``NumPy/SciPy documentation guide``_ for an
+introduction to the syntax.
+
+.. _reStructuredText:
+  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html
+.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
+.. _docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
+.. _numpydoc: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpydoc
+.. _NumPy/SciPy documentation guide:
+  https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/HOWTO_DOCUMENT.rst.txt