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+# git-ls-files --others --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude
+# 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]
+*~
+*.o
+*.os
+Makefile
+*.template
+*.binding
+.scache
+.deps
+*.so
+libs/gtkmm2
+
+.sconf_temp/
+.sconsign.dblite
+ardour_system.rc
+config.log
+gtk2_ardour/SAE-de.bindings
+gtk2_ardour/SAE-us.bindings
+gtk2_ardour/ardev_common.sh
+gtk2_ardour/ardour-3.0
+gtk2_ardour/ardour.sh
+gtk2_ardour/ardour3_ui_dark.rc
+gtk2_ardour/ardour3_ui_light.rc
+gtk2_ardour/ergonomic-us.bindings
+gtk2_ardour/mnemonic-us.bindings
+gtk2_ardour/version.cc
+gtk2_ardour/version.h
+libs/ardour/ardour/version.h
+libs/ardour/svn_revision.cc
+libs/ardour/version.cc
+libs/glibmm2/Makefile.in
+libs/glibmm2/aclocal.m4
+libs/glibmm2/autom4te.cache/
+libs/glibmm2/config.log
+libs/glibmm2/configure
+libs/glibmm2/glib/Makefile.in
+libs/gtkmm2ext/gtkmm2ext/version.h
+libs/gtkmm2ext/version.cc
+libs/midi++2/midi++/version.h
+libs/midi++2/version.cc
+libs/pbd/pbd/version.h
+libs/pbd/version.cc
+libs/sigc++2/Makefile.in
+libs/sigc++2/aclocal.m4
+libs/sigc++2/autom4te.cache/
+libs/sigc++2/config.guess
+libs/sigc++2/config.log
+libs/sigc++2/config.status
+libs/sigc++2/config.sub
+libs/sigc++2/configure
+libs/sigc++2/depcomp
+libs/sigc++2/install-sh
+libs/sigc++2/libsigc++-2.0.spec
+libs/sigc++2/libtool
+libs/sigc++2/ltmain.sh
+libs/sigc++2/scripts/Makefile.in
+libs/sigc++2/sigc++-2.0.pc
+libs/sigc++2/sigc++/Makefile.in
+libs/sigc++2/sigc++config.h
+libs/sigc++2/stamp-h1
+libs/taglib/bindings/c/taglib_c.pc
+libs/taglib/config.h
+libs/taglib/config.log
+libs/taglib/config.status
+libs/taglib/headers/
+libs/taglib/libtool
+libs/taglib/stamp-h1
+libs/taglib/taglib-config
+libs/taglib/taglib.pc
+manual/xml/entities.ent
+scache.conf
+tools/osx_packaging/Resources/
+