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+# Shepherd
+
+Shepherd is a git repository manager. This arises out of the personal need to
+work with a collection of ever-changing git repositories, on more than one
+machine.
+
+The goal is to have a _single_ "repositories" file that can be synced
+across devices. Shepherd would take this file, allow for syncing repository
+configurations and bulk operations (fetch, unified log, etc).