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What It Can Do
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-The goal of this library is to allow its users the ability to handle Git data in
-their applications from their programming language of choice, as is used in
-production for many applications including the GitHub.com site, in Plastic SCM
-and also powering Microsoft's Visual Studio tools for Git.
+libgit2 provides you with the ability to manage Git repositories in the
+programming language of your choice. It's used in production to power many
+applications including GitHub.com, Plastic SCM and Visual Studio Team Services.
It does not aim to replace the git tool or its user-facing commands. Some APIs
resemble the plumbing commands as those align closely with the concepts of the