diff --git a/DESCRIPTION.txt b/DESCRIPTION.txt
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+gitnspector is a statistical analysis tool for git repositories. The defaut analysis shows general statistics per author, which can be complemented with a timeline analysis that shows the workload and activity of each author. Under normal operation, it filters the results to only show statistics about a number of given extensions and by default only includes source files in the statistical analysis.
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+This tool was originally written to help fetch repository statistics from student projects in the course Object-oriented Programming Project (TDA367/DIT211) at Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University.
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+- Shows cumulative work by each author in the history.
+- Filters results by extension (default: java,c,cpp,h,hpp,py,glsl,rb,js,sql).
+- Can display a statistical timeline analysis.
+- Scans for all filetypes (by extension) found in the repository.
+- Multi-threaded; uses multiple instances of git to speed up analysis when possible.
+- Supports HTML and XML output as a complement to the terminal support.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ setup(
 	license = "GNU GPL v3",
 	keywords = "analysis analyzer git python statistics stats vc vcs timeline",
 	url = "http://gitinspector.googlecode.com",
-	long_description = read("README.txt"),
+	long_description = read("DESCRIPTION.txt"),
 	classifiers = [
 		"Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
 		"Environment :: Console",