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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020-present Open Networking Foundation <info@opennetworking.org>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+# Patterns to ignore when building packages.
+# This supports shell glob matching, relative path matching, and
+# negation (prefixed with !). Only one pattern per line.
+.DS_Store
+# Common VCS dirs
+.git/
+.gitignore
+.bzr/
+.bzrignore
+.hg/
+.hgignore
+.svn/
+# Common backup files
+*.swp
+*.bak
+*.tmp
+*~
+# Various IDEs
+.project
+.idea/
+*.tmproj