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 # ghvfs
 Virtual filesystem for GitHub content
+
+## Usage
+
+First, mount the filesystem somewhere:
+```bash
+govfs /tmp/gh
+```
+
+Paths in the virtual filesystem are in the form `/[org]/[repo]/[ref]/[path]`.
+
+For example, to see files as they were at the time of the first commit to `ghvfs`:
+
+```bash
+$ ls /tmp/gh/vgough/ghvfs/cc289b54162f8e9521042e0efb79c779fc89cad9/
+cmd  files.go  fs.go  Gopkg.lock  Gopkg.toml  LICENSE  logs.go  README.md  vendor
+```
+
+## GitHub Enterprise
+
+To use with an enterprise installation, pass a GitHub URL and token.  These can
+be passed using command line flags and/or environment variables.  For example:
+
+```bash
+GITHUB_TOKEN=xxx ghvfs --github=https://github.internal.example.com/ /tmp/gh
+```
+
+## Performance
+
+ghvfs is intended to be used when *sparse* access is needed to a github repository.
+For example, when running a tool which might pull in other references.  Instead
+of cloning the entire repo locally, this allows files to be pulled on-demand.
+
+If you intend to a large fraction of the files in the repository, it is almost
+certainly faster to clone the repo (with limited depth) and use the local copy.
+
+ghvfs by default keeps an LRU cache of the last few thousand file entries and
+directory listings, to avoid repeating GitHub queries.  This can be controlled
+by the `--cache` flag.
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