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+* text=auto
+.gitattributes export-ignore
+.gitignore export-ignore
+.scrutinizer.yml export-ignore
+.travis.yml export-ignore
+/example export-ignore
+/tests export-ignore
+/tests/SEOstatsTest/_assert/* linguist-vendored