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+Native Binaries NuGet Package for LibGit2Sharp
+==============================================
+
+[Libgit2Sharp](https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2sharp) is a managed
+wrapper around [libgit2](https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2), and as
+such requires compilation of libgit2 for your platform.  LibGit2Sharp
+makes this easy by distributing NuGet packages that include precompiled
+versions of these native binaries.
+
+If you need to build your own native binaries for some reason, you can
+do so easily with the scripts in this repository:
+
+1. Clone the LibGit2Sharp repository.  Do so recursively to ensure that
+   the `libgit2` submodule is initialized automatically:
+
+   `git clone --recursive https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2sharp.nativebinaries`
+
+   (If you have already cloned this repository, you can simply run
+   `git submodule init` followed by `git submodule update`.)
+
+2. Update the included libgit2 sources and configuration files to the
+   version of libgit2 you want to build.  For example, to build
+   commit `1a2b3c4`:
+
+   `UpdateLibgit2ToSha.ps1 1a2b3c4`
+
+   Or you can specify references.  To build the remote's `master` branch:
+
+   `UpdateLibgit2ToSha.ps1 master`
+
+3. Build the libgit2 binaries.  For Windows, this requires a Visual Studio
+   installation, and will compile both x86 and amd64 variants.  (See
+   "Notes on Visual Studio", below).  Run the build PowerShell script,
+   specifying the version number of Visual Studio as the first argument.
+   For example, to build with Visual Studio 2013 (aka "Visual Studio 12.0"):
+
+   `build.libgit2.ps1 12`
+
+   For Linux, this will build only the architecture that you're running
+   (x86 or amd64).  For Mac OS X, this will build a fat library that
+   includes both x86 and amd64.  Run the shell script:
+
+   `build.libgit2.sh`
+
+4. Create the NuGet package from the built binaries.  You will need to
+   specify the version number of the resultant NuGet package that you
+   want to generate.  Note that you may wish to provide a suffix to
+   disambiguate your custom package from the official, published NuGet
+   packages.  For example, if you are building a product called
+   `fooproduct` then that may be a helpful suffix.
+
+    To build a NuGet package at version `1.2.3-foo`:
+
+   `buildpackage.ps1 1.2.3-foo`
+
+   And the result will be a NuGet package in the current directory:
+
+   `LibGit2Sharp.NativeBinaries.1.2.3-foo.nupkg`
+
+Specifying custom DLL names
+---------------------------
+If you want to redistribute a LibGit2Sharp that uses a custom libgit2,
+you may want to change the name of the libgit2 shared library file to
+disambiguate it from other installations.  This may be useful if you
+are running as a plugin inside a larger process and wish to avoid
+conflicting with other plugins who may wish to use LibGit2Sharp and
+want to ensure that *your* version of libgit2 is loaded into memory
+and available to you.
+
+For example, if your plugin names if `fooplugin`, you may wish to
+distribute a DLL named `git2-fooplugin.dll`.  You can specify the
+custom DLL name as the second argument to the update and build scripts:
+
+    UpdateLibgit2ToSha.ps1 1a2b3c4 git2-fooplugin
+    build.libgit2.sh 14 git2-fooplugin
+
+Then build the NuGet package as described above, making sure to provide
+a helpful suffix to ensure that your NuGet package will not be confused
+with the official packages.
+
+Notes on Visual Studio
+----------------------
+Visual Studio is required to build the native binaries, however you
+do not need to install a *paid* version of Visual Studio.  libgit2
+can be compiled using [Visual Studio Community](https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs),
+which is free for building open source applications.
+
+You need to specify the actual version number (not the marketing name)
+of Visual Studio.  (For example, "Visual Studio 2013" is the name of the
+product, but its actual version number is "12.0".)  A handy guide:
+
+| Marketing Name     | Version Number
+|--------------------|---------------
+| Visual Studio 2010 | 10.0
+| Visual Studio 2012 | 11.0
+| Visual Studio 2013 | 12.0
+| Visual Studio 2015 | 14.0
+