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+This branch "gh-pages" is used to deploy the project documentation to GitHub Pages.
+It is automatically managed by the Maven Wagon GitSite : http://khuxtable.github.com/wagon-gitsite/
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+It is updated when the project is released. If you want to manually update it, just do a "mvn site:deploy".
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