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+docs/* linguist-documentation
+
+examples/* -linguist-detectable
+tutorial/* -linguist-detectable
+
+**/*.bom.tsv linguist-generated
+**/*.bom.csv linguist-generated
+**/*.gv linguist-generated
+**/*.html linguist-generated
+**/*.png linguist-generated
+**/*.svg linguist-generated