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 # beppes-tekton-catalog
-A collection of tekton tasks i use
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+This repository contains a collection of Tekton tasks i use. 
+Most of these are taken from the tekton catalog project (https://github.com/tektoncd/catalog). Some of these are edited versions of tasks from the tekton catalog project, and a few of these created completely manually.