Transfer documentation from docstring to README. Fixes #64.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index bd62020..63699e5 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -126,6 +126,12 @@ The Currently supported configuration keys are:
     a newstyle format string thats given the current version as
     the :code:`version` keyword argument for formatting
 
+:relative_to:
+    a file from which root may be resolved. typically called by a
+    script or module that is not
+    in the root of the repository to direct setuptools_scm to the
+    root of the repository by supplying ``__file__``.
+
 To use setuptools_scm in other Python code you can use the
 ``get_version`` function:
 
diff --git a/setuptools_scm/__init__.py b/setuptools_scm/__init__.py
index 4507d86..0e03a7d 100644
--- a/setuptools_scm/__init__.py
+++ b/setuptools_scm/__init__.py
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ def get_version(root='.',
     If supplied, relative_to should be a file from which root may
     be resolved. Typically called by a script or module that is not
     in the root of the repository to direct setuptools_scm to the
-    root of the repository by passing ``__file__``.
+    root of the repository by supplying ``__file__``.
     """
     if relative_to:
         root = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(relative_to), root)