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+# Ignore all .pyc files
+*.pyc
+
+# Ignore the EPICS environment variables (this file is recreated by ioc/startioc.py via config.yaml)
+ioc/config.cmd
+
+# Ignore the Python virtual environment
+testenv
+
+# Ignore the IOCshell history
+ioc/.iocsh_history
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