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 Included in this repo are tools shared by weave.git and scope.git.  They include
 
-- cover: a tool which merges overlapping coverage reports generated by go test
-- lint: a script to lint Go project; runs various tools like golint, go vet, errcheck etc
-- rebuild-image: a script to rebuild docker images when their input files change; useful
+- ```cover```: a tool which merges overlapping coverage reports generated by go test
+- ```lint```: a script to lint Go project; runs various tools like golint, go vet, errcheck etc
+- ```rebuild-image```: a script to rebuild docker images when their input files change; useful
   when you using docker images to build your software, but you don't want to build the
   image every time.
-- socks: a simple, dockerised SOCKS proxy for getting your laptop onto the Weave network
-- test: a script to run all go unit tests in subdirectories, gather the coverage results,
+- ```socks```: a simple, dockerised SOCKS proxy for getting your laptop onto the Weave network
+- ```test```: a script to run all go unit tests in subdirectories, gather the coverage results,
   and merge them into a single report.