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+BasedOnStyle: LLVM
+IndentWidth: 4
+
+UseTab: Never
+ColumnLimit: 80
+AlignConsecutiveAssignments: false 
+AlignConsecutiveMacros: true
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+.cproject
+.project
+bin/
+.settings
+*.aux
+*.log
+*.out
+*.toc
+*.o
+*.so
+build/**
+RELEASE.txt
+Testing/
+
+*.pyc
+*/__pycache__/*
+
diff --git a/cmake/.gitignore b/cmake/.gitignore
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+
diff --git a/data/.gitignore b/data/.gitignore
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+
diff --git a/examples/.gitignore b/examples/.gitignore
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+
diff --git a/extra/.gitignore b/extra/.gitignore
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+
diff --git a/src/.gitignore b/src/.gitignore
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+
diff --git a/tests/.gitignore b/tests/.gitignore
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+