add gitdesk to detect updates

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## Setup
1. Install Python 3.9+ and git (2.25 or newer).
1. Install Python 3.9+. That's not needed if you use the built exe.
2. Install the one dependency: `python -m pip install -r requirements.txt`
(or just run gitdesk once and say yes when it offers to install it).
3. **git:** if it isn't installed, gitdesk offers to install it for you when it starts.
It does the same if your git is older than 2.25.
- **Windows:** installs Git for Windows (which includes Git LFS) with `winget`, after
the usual permission prompt. gitdesk picks it up straight away. Without winget, it opens
the download page.
- **Linux:** installs `git` and `git-lfs` with apt, dnf, yum, pacman, zypper or apk, using sudo.
- **macOS:** uses Homebrew, or Apple's command line tools.
4. **Your name and email:** the first time you commit or create a repository, gitdesk asks
for them if git doesn't know them yet. They're saved for all your repositories.
## Build a standalone executable (optional)