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+nbdkit
+Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Red Hat Inc.
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+# go-nbdkit
+Importable Golang bindings for nbdkit, extracted from official libguestfs.org releases.
+
+This repository includes all the auto-generated golang files from the official libguestfs.org releases of nbdkit, so that the bindings can be imported with `go.mod` or `go get`. This is intended as a temporary measure to allow [CDI](https://github.com/kubevirt/containerized-data-importer) to make use of nbdkit plugins for functional tests.
+