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+UltiSnips
+=========
+
+This is the official repository for UltiSnips. It is held in sync with the
+official bzr repository over at Launchpad [1] and is meant as a convenience
+for contributors. Send Pull request to this repository, not vim-scripts clone.
+
+Note that we do not use the Issue tracker here one GitHub because the one on
+lanchpad is superior. Please report `issues over there`_.
+
+[1] http://launchpad.net/ultisnips
+
+.. _issues over there: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ultisnips
+
+