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 # repo2html
 
-a post-receive hook that generates an html view of a git repository.
+a command-line tool that turns git repositories in html pages
 
 ## features
 
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 - image support (we're working on this)
 - svg support (we're working on this)
 - markdown files are rendered as html (we're working on this)
-- no background process other than git-daemon
+- no background process (unless you're using this tool as a post-receive hook, then you only need git-daemon running)
 - default repository view is an html-rendered README.md file
 
 ## caveats