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+static-annex --- Scripts for creating a static git-annex build
+==============================================================
+
+This repository contains scripts for creating the statically linked
+linux/amd64 builds of git-annex [^1] that are hosted under
+
+  https://dl.kyleam.com/git-annex/
+
+To do so, it relies on the images defined at
+
+  https://gitlab.com/benz0li/ghc-musl
+
+[^1] https://git-annex.branchable.com/
+
+
+License
+-------
+
+This repository's build scripts are licensed under the BSD Zero Clause
+License.  The licenses of the various git-annex components are
+specified in its COPYRIGHT file, which is bundled with each output
+tar.gz.
+
+
+Contributing
+------------
+
+Bug reports, patches, questions, and other feedback are welcome.
+Please send a plain-text email, with "[static-annex]" as the subject
+prefix, to
+
+    misc@inbox.kyleam.com
+
+To add this prefix to patches, you can generate the them with
+
+    git format-patch --subject-prefix="PATCH static-annex" ...
+
+To avoid passing --subject-prefix each time you call format-patch, you
+can configure the repository's default prefix:
+
+    git config format.subjectPrefix "PATCH static-annex"
+
+Messages that include the address above are public and available as
+public-inbox [^2] archives at
+
+    https://inbox.kyleam.com/misc/?q=s%3Astatic-annex
+
+[^2]: https://public-inbox.org/README