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-# Auto detect text files and perform LF normalization
-* text=auto
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-# Improve accuracy of GitHub's Linguist-powered language statistics
-pelican/tests/content/* linguist-vendored
-pelican/tests/output/* linguist-vendored
-samples/* linguist-vendored