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+# radicle-git
+
+The home for all Git utilities related to Radicle. While the majority
+of the utilities will attempt to be general, there may be more
+opinionated parts that are geared towards Radicle.
+
+## Motivation
+
+The [git2] and [gitoxide] libraries provide low-level APIs for
+interacting with git repositories and the git protocol. This family of
+crates attempts to provide a higher-level wrapper around those to
+provide a more useful API for the Radicle protocol and UI clients
+building on top of the protocol.
+
+## Overview
+
+The repository is defined as a series of crates:
+
+* `git-ext` -- provides higher-level types over common types found in `git2`.
+* `git-ref-format` -- provides a higher-level API for constructing git.
+  reference paths. Prefer this over `git-ext`'s `RefLike` and `RefspecPattern`.
+* `git-trailers` -- provides a way to parse and construct git trailers.
+* `git-types` -- provides higher-level types, e.g. `Namespace`,
+  `Reference`, `Remote`, etc.
+* `link-git` -- provides a higher-level API for git's `refdb`, `odb`,
+  and the git protocol.
+* `macros` -- provides macros for the `git-ext` references types.
+* `std-ext` -- provides some utilities extending the standard library.
+* `test` -- a shim crate that refers depends on all other, individual
+  test crates.
+
+## Tests
+
+Please refer to [test/README.md][test] for understanding how our tests
+are organised.
+
+## Contribute
+
+Please read [CONTRIBUTING.md][contrib] for a guide on contributing to
+this repository.
+
+## Credits
+
+Thanks to the previous maintainers of the `radicle-link` repository,
+Kim, Alex, and Fintan, for providing the foundation to work upon -- as
+well as the [contributors][link-contributors].
+
+[contrib]: ./CONTRIBUTING.md
+[git2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/git2-rs
+[gitoxide]: https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide
+[link-contributors]: https://github.com/radicle-dev/radicle-link/graphs/contributors
+[test]: ./test/README.md