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+### About:
+
+drush_make is an extension to drush that can create a ready-to-use drupal site, 
+pulling sources from varied locations. It does this by parsing a flat text file
+(similar to a drupal .info file) and downloading the sources it describes. In
+practical terms, this means that it is possible to distribute a complicated 
+drupal distribution (such as development seed's open atrium) as a single text
+file.
+
+Among drush_make's capabilities are:
+
+* downloading Drupal core, as well as contrib modules from drupal.org.
+* checking out code from CVS and svn repositories, including tag-specific
+* checking out code from git repositories, including checking out a particular 
+  branch after cloning the repo
+* getting .tar.gz and .zip files via wget or curl (particularly useful for 
+  libraries that can not be distributed directly with drupal core or modules)
+* fetching and applying patches
+
+### Usage
+
+drush make filename.make
+
+### .make file format
+
+The following will download the latest version of drupal 6:
+====
+; lines starting with a semi-colon are comments 
+core = 6.x
+projects[] =  drupal
+====
+
+To download a contributed module:
+====
+projects[] = cck
+====
+
+To download a module and apply a patch:
+====
+projects[] = adminrole
+projects[adminrole][patch][] = "http://drupal.org/files/issues/adminrole_exceptions.patch"
+====
+
+To download an external library (this will be placed in sites/all/libraries by default):
+====
+libraries[tinymce][download][type] = "get"
+libraries[tinymce][download][url] = "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/tinymce/TinyMCE/3.2.7/tinymce_3_2_7.zip"
+libraries[tinymce][directory_name] = "tinymce"
+====
+
+To download a custom theme from an arbitrary location:
+====
+projects[mytheme][type] = "theme"
+projects[mytheme][download][type] = "svn"
+projects[mytheme][download][url] = "http://example.com/svnrepo/cool-theme/"
+projects[mytheme][download][branch] = "production"
+====
+
+To download a custom install profile:
+====
+projects[awesome_profile][type] = "profile"
+projects[awesome_profile][download][type] = "svn"
+projects[awesome_profile][download][url] = "http://example.com/svnrepo/awesome_profile/"
+projects[awesome_profile][download][branch] = "trunk"
+
+### Recursion
+
+If a profile downloaded by drush_make includes a .make file, drush_make will automatically
+parse it. This means that it is possible to create a makefile that is simply a pointer to
+the repository for your install profile.
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+To install drush_make, create a directory named .drush in your home directory, and move this directory into it.
+
+ex:
+
+cd ..; mkdir ~/.drush; mv drush_make ~/.drush
+