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-Thank you for contributing changes to this document! Because we use a central repository
-to synchronize this file across all our repositories, make sure to make your edits
-in the correct file, which you can find here:
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-https://github.com/ory/meta/blob/master/templates/repository/common/CONTRIBUTING.md
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-in the correct file, which you can find here:
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