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-/emacs.desktop
-*~
-*.lock
-!flake.lock
-*.pyc
-OBJ.*
-locale/scriptstrings/*
-bin.*/*
-dist.*/*
-config.log
-config.status*
-error.log
-grass.pc
-autom4te.cache/
-
-# ignore specific file generated during make
-gui/wxpython/menustrings.py
-gui/wxpython/xml/menudata.xml
-gui/wxpython/xml/module_tree_menudata.xml
-include/Make/Doxyfile_arch_html
-include/Make/Doxyfile_arch_latex
-include/Make/Platform.make
-include/grass/config.h
-include/grass/version.h
-lib/db/sqlp/sqlp.output
-lib/db/sqlp/sqlp.tab.c
-lib/db/sqlp/sqlp.tab.h
-lib/db/sqlp/sqlp.yy.c
-python/grass/script/setup.py.tmp
-raster/r.mapcalc/mapcalc.output
-raster/r.mapcalc/mapcalc.tab.c
-raster/r.mapcalc/mapcalc.tab.h
-raster/r.mapcalc/mapcalc.yy.c
-mswindows/GRASS-Installer.nsi
-mswindows/GRASS-Packager.bat
-mswindows/osgeo4w/configure-stamp
-mswindows/osgeo4w/lib/
-mswindows/osgeo4w/package.log*
-mswindows/osgeo4w/package/
-mswindows/osgeo4w/setup*.hint
-mswindows/osgeo4w/vc/
-daag*.s
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-# notebook helper files
-.ipynb_checkpoints
-
-# ignore gunittest helper and result files
-testreport/*
-testsuite/examples/testreports/
-test_keyvalue_result.txt
-
-# ignore paths generated by helper tools
-node_modules
-include/VERSION_GIT
-
-# ignore autogenerated documentation
-python/grass/docs/_build/
-html/
-latex/
-lib/*/html/
-lib/*/latex/
-
-# Ignore code coverage files
-*.gcov
-*.gcno
-*.gcda
-.coverage
-.coverage.*
-coverage.xml
-lib/gis/.DS_Store
-lib/.DS_Store
-.DS_Store