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+This is a minimal fork of Arch's `devtools'.
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+It is a fork in that bugs are fixed and features added.
+  This happens on the "complete" branch.  Most development should happen here,
+  and it should be able to be merged back into devtools.
+It is minimal in that it doesn't include most of what is in devtools.
+  This happens on the "master" branch.
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+a sample .git/config file is included to make it easy to merge from devtools.