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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]
+# *~
+
+.DS_Store
+Makefile.in
+*~
+
+/aclocal.m4
+/autom4te.cache
+/compile
+/config.guess
+/config.sub
+/configure
+/depcomp
+/install-sh
+/ltmain.sh
+/missing
+/ylwrap
+/appl/login/login_protos.h
+/cf/libtool.m4
+/cf/ltoptions.m4
+/cf/ltsugar.m4
+/cf/ltversion.m4
+/cf/lt~obsolete.m4
+/doc/Makefile.in
+/doc/heimdal.info
+/doc/hx509.info
+/doc/gssapi
+/doc/hdb
+/doc/hcrypto
+/doc/hx509
+/doc/krb5
+/doc/ntlm
+/doc/wind
+/include/config.h.in
+/include/stamp-h.in
+/kcm/kcm_protos.h
+/kdc/kdc-protos.h
+/kdc/kdc-private.h
+/lib/asn1/der-protos.h
+/lib/asn1/der-private.h
+/lib/auth/Makefile.in
+/lib/com_err/parse.c
+/lib/com_err/parse.h
+/lib/gssapi/krb5/gsskrb5-private.h
+/lib/gssapi/ntlm/ntlm-private.h
+/lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego-private.h
+/lib/hdb/hdb-protos.h
+/lib/hdb/hdb-private.h
+/lib/hx509/hx509-private.h
+/lib/hx509/hx509-protos.h
+/lib/hx509/data/*.pem
+/lib/hx509/data/*.srl
+/lib/hx509/data/*.req
+/lib/hx509/data/sub-ca-combined.crt
+/lib/kadm5/kadm5-protos.h
+/lib/kadm5/kadm5-private.h
+/lib/krb5/krb5-protos.h
+/lib/krb5/krb5-private.h
+/lib/ntlm/heimntlm-protos.h
+/lib/wind/*.pyc
+/lib/wind/bidi_table.c
+/lib/wind/bidi_table.h
+/lib/wind/combining_table.c
+/lib/wind/combining_table.h
+/lib/wind/errorlist_table.c
+/lib/wind/errorlist_table.h
+/lib/wind/map_table.c
+/lib/wind/map_table.h
+/lib/wind/normalize_table.c
+/lib/wind/normalize_table.h
+/lib/wind/punycode_examples.c
+/lib/wind/punycode_examples.h
+/scripts