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Bugs Everywhere
===============
-This is Bugs Everywhere, a bugtracker built on distributed revision control.
-It works with Bazaar and Arch at the moment, but is easily extensible. It
-can also function with no RCS at all.
+This is Bugs Everywhere, a bugtracker built on distributed revision
+control. It works with Arch, Bazaar, Darcs, Git, and Mercurial at the
+moment, but is easily extensible. It can also function with no RCS 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 ids.
+numbers, bugs have globally unique ids.
+
Getting started
===============
@@ -15,9 +17,11 @@ set the bug root to your project root, so that Bugs Everywhere works in any
part of your project tree.
$ be init $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". For more
-commands, see "be help". You can also look at the usage in test_usage.sh.
+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.
+
Using BeWeb, the web UI
=======================