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 Import
 ===============
+
+This repository is for adding existing repos and checkouts on various devices
+in to git here.
+
+For example, there might be on the macbook pro a check out of the svn repo
+with local modifications, and also on the desktop PC or imac or nuc similar
+other checkouts of the same files also with local modifications. With putting
+all these in to git, they can all be added in to branches in git for each
+machine, and those branches slowly merged in to a mainline, and so on.
+
+Well that is the plan.
+
+- first create an empty repo
+- 2nd check it out on different machines
+- create branches on each machine
+- then submit the local copies
+- then slowly merge in to a mainline branch
+
+Probably will want to do this by project