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+# Justbuild
+
+Justbuild is a generic build system supporting multi-repository
+builds. A pecularity of the tool is the separation between global
+names and physical location on the one hand, and logical paths
+used for actions and installation (sometimes referred to as
+"staging"). Language-specific information to translate high-level
+concepts (libraries, binaries) into individual compile action is
+taken from user-defined rules described by functional expressions.
+
+## Getting Started
+
+* The most simple way to build the `just` binary from scratch
+  is `python3 ./bin/bootstrap.py`. For more details see the
+  [installation guide](INSTALL.md).
+
+* Tutorial
+  - [Hello World](doc/tutorial/hello-world.org)
+  - [Third party dependencies](doc/tutorial/third-party-software.org)
+  - [Tests](doc/tutorial/tests.org)
+  - [Using protobuf](doc/tutorial/proto.org)
+
+## Documentation
+
+- [Overview](doc/concepts/overview.org)
+- [Build Configurations](doc/concepts/configuration.org)
+- [Multi-Repository Builds](doc/concepts/multi-repo.org)
+- [Expression Language](doc/concepts/expressions.org)
+- [Built-in Rules](doc/concepts/built-in-rules.org)
+- [User-Defined Rules](doc/concepts/rules.org)
+- [Documentation Strings](doc/concepts/doc-strings.org)
+- [Cache Pragma and Testing](doc/concepts/cache-pragma.org)
+- [Anonymous Targets](doc/concepts/anonymous-targets.org)
+- [Target-Level Caching](doc/concepts/target-cache.org)