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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: © 2020 Open Networking Foundation <support@opennetworking.org>
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+*.pyc
+.tox
+.coverage
+venv_*
+*.egg-info
+
+# directories with ephemeral info
+products
+site
+jobs
+
+# credentials
+credentials.yaml