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+# giteaworkgen
+
+Generates a "prior work" list that is useful when taking a new job and they ask
+you for all of your prior inventions. This scrapes a Gitea server and gets a
+list of all of your repos and dumps the following information:
+
+- The name
+- The description
+- A "reference number"
+- Creation date
+- Modification date
+- Other owners
+
+This template is used by lawyers. I don't understand why but this is what I was
+asked to produce.