diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index b40c618f..5ac89eda
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ ZSHDIR=$(PREFIX)/share/zsh/vendor-completions
 RONN ?= ronn
 
 self=vcsh
-manpages=$(self).1
+vcsha=vcsha
+manpages=$(self).1 $(vcsha).1
 all=test
 
 all: $(all)
@@ -13,6 +14,7 @@ all: $(all)
 install: all
 	install -d $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin
 	install -m 0755 $(self) $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin
+	install -m 0755 $(vcsha) $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin
 	install -d $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/man/man1
 	install -m 0644 $(manpages) $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/man/man1
 	install -d $(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)
@@ -26,12 +28,17 @@ manpages: $(manpages)
 $(self).1: doc/$(self).1.ronn
 	$(RONN) < doc/$(self).1.ronn > $(self).1 || rm $(self).1
 
+$(vcsha).1: doc/$(vcsha).1.ronn
+	$(RONN) < doc/$(vcsha).1.ronn > $(vcsha).1 || rm $(vcsha).1
+
 clean:
-	rm -rf $(self).1
+	rm -rf $(self).1 $(vcsha).1
 
 uninstall:
 	rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/$(self)
+	rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/$(vcsha)
 	rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/man/man1/$(self).1
+	rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/man/man1/$(vcsha).1
 	rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)
 	rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(ZSHDIR)/_$(self)
 
diff --git a/README-vcsha.md b/README-vcsha.md
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..f12b68d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README-vcsha.md
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+Introduction
+============
+
+An add-on to allow VCSH (https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh) to manage
+arbitrary directories.
+
+VCSH is a tool that allows you to manage files in your $HOME in
+multiple different git repositories.
+
+This script is an addition that allow you to apply the same kind of
+management to files in arbitrary directories *NOT* under $HOME.
+
+
+Use
+===
+
+VCSHA attempts to be anaogous to the way git locates its repositories.
+
+Use `vcsha init` in a directory to mark it for management by vcsha.
+
+After that, use vcsha just as you would use vcsh but you will be
+managing files underneath the marked directoriy.
+
+Details
+=======
+
+As it stands, VCSH really wants to only manage files under $HOME.
+However, it has a mechanism (enviornment variable "VCSH_BASE" (see
+https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh/issues/112)) to work on other
+directories.
+
+This script uses a marker directory ".vcsha" in the file system to
+locate a vcsh managed directory, sets VCSH_BASE and XDG_CONFIG_HOME
+appropriately, then delegates all interesting work to vcsh.
+
+This is useless without VCSH and is a fairly trivial addition to VCSH.
diff --git a/doc/vcsha.1.ronn b/doc/vcsha.1.ronn
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..5b4e76c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/vcsha.1.ronn
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+vcsha(1) - Use vcsh(1) on arbitrary directories
+===============================================
+
+## SYSTEM
+`vcsha` init
+
+`vcsha` <any vcsh arguments>
+
+## DESCRIPTION
+
+This script is an addition that allow you to apply vcsh to files in
+arbitrary directories *NOT* under $HOME.
+
+## OPTIONS
+
+none
+
+## COMMANDS
+
+* init:
+  initialize the current directory for vcsh operations.  NOTE: if
+  `init` is passed any arguments, the whole command line will be
+  passed through to vcsh and have different results.
+
+* any vcsh command
+  See `vcsh`(1) for commands and options.
+
+## ENVIRONMENT
+
+Sets $VCSH_BASE and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME to the directory found for vcsha
+operations.
+
+## CONFIG
+
+Similar to git, `vcsha` will examine the directory tree from the
+current directory to the root directory for a ".vcsha" marker
+subdirectory.  If found, the directory containing ".vcsha" will be
+taken to be the base of all `vcsh`(1) operations and the environment
+variables will be set to that the directory containing .vcsha.  `vcsha
+init` is a convenience method for creating this directory.
+
+## AUTHOR
+
+This manpage and `vcsha` were written by Dewey Sasser.  The script is
+a trivial wrapper around the excellent work by Richard "RichiH"
+Hartmann.
+
+## COPYRIGHT
+
+Copyright 2014 Dewey Sasser <dewey@sasser.com>
+
+Licensed under the GNU GPL version 2 or higher.
+
+https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh
+
+## SEE ALSO
+
+`vcsh`(1)
+
diff --git a/vcsha b/vcsha
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..4b805395
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vcsha
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Purpose:  wrap vcsh to allow management of arbitrary directories
+
+finddir() {
+    (
+	while [ `pwd` != / ] ; do
+	    if [ -d .vcsha ] ; then
+		pwd
+	    fi
+	    cd ..
+	done
+    )
+}
+
+if [ "$1" = "init" -a "$#" -eq 1 ] ; then
+   mkdir .vcsha
+   exit 0
+fi
+
+dir=`finddir`
+
+if [ -z "$dir" ] ; then
+    echo "Not in a vcsha repository.  Use vcsha init to create a repository"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+export VCSH_BASE="$dir"
+export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$dir"
+exec vcsh "$@"