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+# Lines that start with '#' are comments.
+# For a project mostly in C, the following would be a good set of
+# exclude patterns (uncomment them if you want to use them):
+# *.[oa]
+# *~
+
+/.settings/
+/manager/.settings/
+/.buildpath
+/manager/.buildpath
+/.project
+