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 `gitoxide` is an implementation of `git` written in Rust for developing future-proof applications which strive for correctness and
 performance while providing a pleasant and unsurprising developer experience.
 
-`gitoxide` provides the `gix` and `ein` binaries for use on the command-line to allow experimentation with key features
-like `fetch` and `clone`, and to validate the usability and control of the API offered by the [`gix`] crate.
+There are two primary ways to use `gitoxide`:
 
-`gitoxide` aspires to be a production-grade server implementation and the `ein` binary aspires to become the default way to interact with git repositories.
+1. **As Rust library**: Use the [`gix`](https://docs.rs/gix) crate as a Cargo dependency for API access.
+1. **As command-line tool**: The `gix` binary as development tool to help testing the API in real repositories,
+    and the `ein` binary with workflow-enhancing tools. Both binaries may forever be unstable,
+    *do not rely on them in scripts*.
 
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