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+exclude .*
+exclude environment.yml requirements.txt  Makefile
+exclude environment-dev.yml requirements-dev.txt azure-pipelines.yml readthedocs.yml
+recursive-exclude docs *
+recursive-exclude docssrc *
+recursive-exclude examples *
+recursive-exclude pytests *
+recursive-exclude testdata *
+recursive-exclude tutorials *