# Utilities
TMI is starting to collect a number of small utilities for git. Each utility
-has a man page describing its operation.
+has a man page describing its operation. A few notables:
* `git-empty-branch`. Create an empty branch in a local git repository.
Morgan. See his [git utilities page](http://git-wt-commit.rubyforge.org).
We did not want to have to install ruby just for this one little utility.
+* `update-mirror`. A work in progress script to automate mirroring of upstream
+ repositories hosted on various revision controls systems. Thanks to the
+ authors of [girocco](http://repo.or.cz/w/girocco.git), whose clone.sh script
+ forms the basis of this script.
+
# Installation
To install the utilities, copy the scripts to `/usr/local/bin` and ensure they