+
+You need libxml2-devel, gtk2-devel, glib-2.0 and GConf2-devel to build
+this (and libusb-1.0 if you have libdivecomputer built with it, but then
+you obviously already have it installed)
+
+You also need to have libdivecomputer installed, which goes something like this:
+
+ git clone git://libdivecomputer.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer
+ cd libdivecomputer
+ autoreconf --install
+ ./configure
+ make
+ sudo make install
+
+NOTE! You may need to tell the main Makefile where you installed
+libdivecomputer if you didn't do it in the default /usr/local location.
+I don't trust pkg-config for libdivecomputer, since pkg-config usually
+doesn't work unless the project has been installed by the distro.
+
+Just edit the makefile directly. autoconf and friends are the devil's
+tools.
+
+Usage:
+
+ make
+ ./subsurface dives/*.xml
+
+to see my dives (with no notes or commentary).
+
+Or, if you have a dive computer supported by libdivecomputer (and
+connected to /dev/ttyUSB0), you can just do
+
+ make
+ ./subsurface
+
+and select "Import" from the File menu, tell it what dive computer you
+have, and hit "OK".
+
+There's a lot of duplicates in the XML files that come as an example,
+and subsurface will de-duplicate the ones that are exactly the same
+(just because they were imported multiple times). But at least two of
+the dives have duplicates that were edited by Dirk in the Suunto Dive
+Manager, so they don't trigger the "exact duplicates" match.
+
+Implementation details:
+
+ main.c - program frame
+ dive.c - creates and maintaines the internal dive list structure
+ libdivecomputer.c
+ uemis.c
+ parse-xml.c
+ save-xml.c - interface with dive computers and the XML files
+ profile.c - creates the data for the profile and draws it using cairo
+
+A first UI has been implemented in gtk and an attempt has been made to
+separate program logic from UI implementation.
+
+ gtk-gui.c - overall layout, main window of the UI
+ divelist.c - list of dives subsurface maintains
+ equipment.c - equipment / tank information for each dive
+ info.c - detailed dive info
+ print.c - printing
+
+WARNING! I wasn't kidding when I said that I've done this by reading
+gtk2 tutorials as I've gone along. If somebody is more comfortable with
+gtk, feel free to send me (signed-off) patches.
+
+Just as an example of the extreme hackiness of the code, I don't even
+bother connecting a signal for the "somebody edited the dive info"
+cases. I just save/restore the dive info every single time you switch
+dives. Christ! That's truly lame.
+
+NOTE! Some of the dives are pretty pitiful. All the last dives are from
+my divemaster course, so they are from following open water students
+along (many of them the confined*water dives). There a lot of the
+action is at the surface, so some of the "dives" are 4ft deep and 2min
+long.
+
+Contributing:
+
+Please either send me signed-off patches or a pull request with
+signed-off commits. If you don't sign off on them, I will not accept
+them. This means adding a line that says "Signed-off-by: Name <email>"
+at the end of each commit, indicating that you wrote the code and have
+the right to pass it on as an open source patch.
+
+See: http://gerrit.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/2.0/user-signedoffby.html
+
+Also, please write good git commit messages. A good commit message
+looks like this:
+
+ header line: explaining the commit in one line
+
+ Body of commit message is a few lines of text, explaining things
+ in more detail, possibly giving some background about the issue
+ being fixed, etc etc.
+
+ The body of the commit message can be several paragrahps, and
+ please do proper word-wrap and keep columns shorter than about
+ 74 characters or so. That way "git log" will show things
+ nicely even when it's indented.
+
+ Reported-by: whoever-reported-it
+ Signed-off-by: Your Name <youremail@yourhost.com>
+
+where that header line really should be meaningful, and really should be
+just one line. That header line is what is shown by tools like gitk and
+shortlog, and should summarize the change in one readable line of text,
+independently of the longer explanation.