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-# Cordova Registry
+Cordova Registry
+================
-This repo contains the couchapp and design documents for the cordova registry.
+This repo contains a couchapp that allows `plugman` to interact with the cordova registy databases. This was taken from npmjs since plugman relies on npmjs.
-## Setup
-
-`npm install`
-
-## Pushing to local repository
-
-couchapp push app.js http://localhost:5984/registry
+For deploying this locally or remotely, please follow the [cordova-registy-web readme](https://github.com/apache/cordova-registry-web/blob/master/README.md).
