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 ************************************
 phorkie - PHP and Git based pastebin
 ************************************
+Self-hosted pastebin software written in PHP.
+Pastes are editable, may have multiple files and are stored in git repositories.
+
+Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/p/phorkie/
+
+.. contents:: Table of Contents
+
+========
+Features
+========
+- every paste is a git repository
+- paste editing
+
+  - add new files
+  - delete existing files
+- multiple files in one paste
+- syntax highlighting with GeSHi
+- rST rendering
+
+
+============
+Dependencies
+============
+phorkie stands on the shoulders of giants.
+
+
+Install VersionControl_Git
+==========================
+::
+
+  $ pear install versioncontrol_git-alpha
+
+
+Install GeSHi
+=============
+::
+
+  $ pear channel-discover mediawiki.googlecode.com/svn
+  $ pear install mediawiki/geshi
+
+Note that this version of GeSHi is a bit outdated, but it's the fastest
+way to install it.
+
+
+Install Twig
+============
+::
+
+  $ pear channel-discover pear.twig-project.org
+  $ pear install twig/Twig
+
+
+=====
+HowTo
+=====
+
+Make git repositories clonable
+==============================
+To make git repositories clonable, you need to install ``git-daemon``
+(``git-daemon-run`` package on Debian/Ubuntu).
+
+Now make the repositories available by symlinking the paste repository
+directory (``$GLOBALS['phorkie']['cfg']['repos']`` setting) into
+``/var/cache/git``, e.g.::
+
+  $ ln -s /home/user/www/paste/repos /var/cache/git/paste
+
+Edit your ``config.php`` and set the ``$GLOBALS['phorkie']['cfg']['git']['public']``
+setting to ``git://$yourhostname/git/paste/``.
+The rest will be appended automatically.
+
+
+You're on your own to setup writable repositories.
+
+
+=================
+Technical details
+=================
+
+TODO
+====
+- search
+- OpenID-Login to get username+email as authorship information
+- sidebar: history
+- image upload
+- document how to keep disk usage low (block size)
+- comments
+- when 2 people edit, merge changes
+- diff changes
+- configurable highlights
+
 
 URLs
 ====
@@ -37,24 +128,5 @@ Search
 Use ``ack-grep``
 
 
-Install geshi
-=============
-::
-
-  $ pear channel-discover mediawiki.googlecode.com/svn
-  $ pear install mediawiki/geshi
 
 
-TODO
-====
-- edit
-- search
-- OpenID-Login to get username+email as authorship information
-- sidebar: history
-- image upload
-- rst rendering
-- document how to keep disk usage low (block size)
-- comments
-- when 2 people edit, merge changes
-- diff changes
-- configurable highlights