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+# Installation and usage
+
+## Installation
+
+_Black_ can be installed by running `pip install black`. It requires Python 3.6.0+ to
+run but you can reformat Python 2 code with it, too.
+
+### Install from GitHub
+
+If you can't wait for the latest _hotness_ and want to install from GitHub, use:
+
+`pip install git+git://github.com/psf/black`
+
+## Usage
+
+To get started right away with sensible defaults:
+
+```sh
+black {source_file_or_directory}
+```
+
+You can run _Black_ as a package if running it as a script doesn't work:
+
+```sh
+python -m black {source_file_or_directory}
+```
+
+## Command line options
+
+_Black_ doesn't provide many options. You can list them by running `black --help`:
+
+```text
+Usage: black [OPTIONS] [SRC]...
+
+  The uncompromising code formatter.
+
+Options:
+  -c, --code TEXT                 Format the code passed in as a string.
+  -l, --line-length INTEGER       How many characters per line to allow.
+                                  [default: 88]
+
+  -t, --target-version [py27|py33|py34|py35|py36|py37|py38]
+                                  Python versions that should be supported by
+                                  Black's output. [default: per-file auto-
+                                  detection]
+
+  --pyi                           Format all input files like typing stubs
+                                  regardless of file extension (useful when
+                                  piping source on standard input).
+
+  -S, --skip-string-normalization
+                                  Don't normalize string quotes or prefixes.
+  --check                         Don't write the files back, just return the
+                                  status.  Return code 0 means nothing would
+                                  change.  Return code 1 means some files
+                                  would be reformatted. Return code 123 means
+                                  there was an internal error.
+
+  --diff                          Don't write the files back, just output a
+                                  diff for each file on stdout.
+
+  --color / --no-color            Show colored diff. Only applies when
+                                  `--diff` is given.
+
+  --fast / --safe                 If --fast given, skip temporary sanity
+                                  checks. [default: --safe]
+
+  --include TEXT                  A regular expression that matches files and
+                                  directories that should be included on
+                                  recursive searches.  An empty value means
+                                  all files are included regardless of the
+                                  name.  Use forward slashes for directories
+                                  on all platforms (Windows, too).  Exclusions
+                                  are calculated first, inclusions later.
+                                  [default: \.pyi?$]
+
+  --exclude TEXT                  A regular expression that matches files and
+                                  directories that should be excluded on
+                                  recursive searches.  An empty value means no
+                                  paths are excluded. Use forward slashes for
+                                  directories on all platforms (Windows, too).
+                                  Exclusions are calculated first, inclusions
+                                  later.  [default: /(\.eggs|\.git|\.hg|\.mypy
+                                  _cache|\.nox|\.tox|\.venv|\.svn|_build|buck-
+                                  out|build|dist)/]
+
+  --force-exclude TEXT            Like --exclude, but files and directories
+                                  matching this regex will be excluded even
+                                  when they are passed explicitly as arguments
+
+  -q, --quiet                     Don't emit non-error messages to stderr.
+                                  Errors are still emitted; silence those with
+                                  2>/dev/null.
+
+  -v, --verbose                   Also emit messages to stderr about files
+                                  that were not changed or were ignored due to
+                                  --exclude=.
+
+  --version                       Show the version and exit.
+  --config FILE                   Read configuration from FILE path.
+  -h, --help                      Show this message and exit.
+```
+
+_Black_ is a well-behaved Unix-style command-line tool:
+
+- it does nothing if no sources are passed to it;
+- it will read from standard input and write to standard output if `-` is used as the
+  filename;
+- it only outputs messages to users on standard error;
+- exits with code 0 unless an internal error occurred (or `--check` was used).
+
+## Using _Black_ with other tools
+
+While _Black_ enforces formatting that conforms to PEP 8, other tools may raise warnings
+about _Black_'s changes or will overwrite _Black_'s changes. A good example of this is
+[isort](https://pypi.org/p/isort). Since _Black_ is barely configurable, these tools
+should be configured to neither warn about nor overwrite _Black_'s changes.
+
+Actual details on _Black_ compatible configurations for various tools can be found in
+[compatible_configs](https://github.com/psf/black/blob/master/docs/compatible_configs.md).
+
+## Migrating your code style without ruining git blame
+
+A long-standing argument against moving to automated code formatters like _Black_ is
+that the migration will clutter up the output of `git blame`. This was a valid argument,
+but since Git version 2.23, Git natively supports
+[ignoring revisions in blame](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-blame#Documentation/git-blame.txt---ignore-revltrevgt)
+with the `--ignore-rev` option. You can also pass a file listing the revisions to ignore
+using the `--ignore-revs-file` option. The changes made by the revision will be ignored
+when assigning blame. Lines modified by an ignored revision will be blamed on the
+previous revision that modified those lines.
+
+So when migrating your project's code style to _Black_, reformat everything and commit
+the changes (preferably in one massive commit). Then put the full 40 characters commit
+identifier(s) into a file.
+
+```
+# Migrate code style to Black
+5b4ab991dede475d393e9d69ec388fd6bd949699
+```
+
+Afterwards, you can pass that file to `git blame` and see clean and meaningful blame
+information.
+
+```console
+$ git blame important.py --ignore-revs-file .git-blame-ignore-revs
+7a1ae265 (John Smith 2019-04-15 15:55:13 -0400 1) def very_important_function(text, file):
+abdfd8b0 (Alice Doe  2019-09-23 11:39:32 -0400 2)     text = text.lstrip()
+7a1ae265 (John Smith 2019-04-15 15:55:13 -0400 3)     with open(file, "r+") as f:
+7a1ae265 (John Smith 2019-04-15 15:55:13 -0400 4)         f.write(formatted)
+```
+
+You can even configure `git` to automatically ignore revisions listed in a file on every
+call to `git blame`.
+
+```console
+$ git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs
+```
+
+**The one caveat is that GitHub and GitLab do not yet support ignoring revisions using
+their native UI of blame.** So blame information will be cluttered with a reformatting
+commit on those platforms. (If you'd like this feature, there's an open issue for
+[GitLab](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/31423) and please let GitHub
+know!)
+
+## NOTE: This is a beta product
+
+_Black_ is already [successfully used](#used-by) by many projects, small and big. It
+also sports a decent test suite. However, it is still very new. Things will probably be
+wonky for a while. This is made explicit by the "Beta" trove classifier, as well as by
+the "b" in the version number. What this means for you is that **until the formatter
+becomes stable, you should expect some formatting to change in the future**. That being
+said, no drastic stylistic changes are planned, mostly responses to bug reports.
+
+Also, as a temporary safety measure, _Black_ will check that the reformatted code still
+produces a valid AST that is equivalent to the original. This slows it down. If you're
+feeling confident, use `--fast`.