Merge pull request #804 from schu/examples-readme examples: add README
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+libgit2 examples
+================
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+These examples might don't work on all platforms and are meant as thin,
+easy-to-read snippets for docurium (https://github.com/github/docurium)
+rather than full-blown implementations of Git commands.
+
+For a HTML version check "Examples" at http://libgit2.github.com/libgit2