1 files changed, 70 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8ad8db9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+**git-hooks** - A tool to manage project, user, and global Git hooks for multiple git repositories.
+
+git-hooks lets hooks be installed inside git repositories, users home directory, and globally.  
+When a hook is called by `git`, git-hooks will check each of these locations for the hooks to run.
+
+
+Install
+=======
+
+Add git-hooks to your `PATH` environment variable so `git hooks` can be run.
+
+Run `git hooks --install` in a git project tell it to use git-hooks hooks.  You can run `git hooks --uninstall` at any time to revert to your previous hooks.  (These are usually the default hooks, which do nothing.)
+
+Run `git hooks --installglobal` to force any new git repository or any git repository you clone to have a reminder to install git hooks. (It can't be on by default for security reasons.)
+
+
+Overview
+========
+
+Hooks are powerful and useful.  Some common hooks include:
+
+- Spell check the commit message.
+- Verify that the code builds.
+- Verify that any new files contain a copyright with the current year in it.
+
+Hooks can be very project-specific such as:
+
+- Verify that the project still builds
+- Verify that autotests matching the modified files still pass with no errors.
+- Pre-populate the commit message with a "standard" format.
+- Verify that any new code follows a "standard" coding style.
+
+Or very person-specific hooks, such as:
+
+- Don't allow a `push` to a remote repository after 1AM, in case I break something and will be asleep.
+- Don't allow a commit between 9-5 for projects in `~/personal/`, as I shouldn't be working on them during work hours.
+
+For more details about the different hooks available to you, check out:
+
+	   http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/githooks.html
+
+
+
+Locations
+=========
+
+git-hooks provide a way to manage and share your hooks using three locations:
+
+ - **User hooks**, installed in `~/.git_hooks/`
+ - **Project hooks**, installed in `.git/git_hooks/` in a project.
+ - **Global hooks**, specified with the `hooks.global` configuration option.
+
+The `contrib/` directory includes a number of useful hooks, and can be set by doing the following:
+
+	   git config --global hooks.global $PWD/contrib/
+
+You can even specify _multiple_ directories for your global hooks! Simply separate each path with spaces.
+
+
+Creating hooks
+==============
+
+To keep things organized, git-hooks looks for scripts in **sub-directories** named after the git hook name.  For example, this project has the following `pre-commit` script in the following location:
+
+	   git_hooks/pre-commit/bsd
+
+When `git hooks` is run without arguments, it lists all hooks installed on your system.  It will run the hooks with the `--about` argument to generate the description shown.  
+
+Check out the hooks in `contrib/` for some examples.
+