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authorEric Wong <e@80x24.org>2015-11-20 01:02:40 +0000
committerEric Wong <e@80x24.org>2015-11-20 01:02:40 +0000
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downloadpublic-inbox-f564327fd1e694056a4b13ed398cabd8d0d4c173.tar.gz
Hopefully this gives new hackers a better overview of
how the components relate to each other.
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 # Copyright (C) 2014-2015 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
 # License: GPLv2 or later (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt)
+#
+# Used to read files from a git repository without excessive forking.
+# Used in our web interfaces as well as our -nntpd server.
 # This is based on code in Git.pm which is GPLv2, but modified to avoid
 # dependence on environment variables for compatibility with mod_perl.
 # There are also API changes to simplify our usage and data set.