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+# For a project mostly in C, the following would be a good set of
+# Lines that start with '#' are comments.
+# exclude patterns (uncomment them if you want to use them):
+# git-ls-files --others --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude
+*.directory
+*.py[co]
+*~
+.*.sw[p,o]
+/build
+tags
+.swp.*
+.kdev4/
+*.kdev4
+*.moc