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+.gitignore
+
+# C*
+build/
+src/gen-java/
+src/resources/org/apache/cassandra/config/
+logs/
+data/
+conf/hotspot_compiler
+doc/cql3/CQL.html
+
+# C* debs
+build-stamp
+build.properties
+debian/cassandra*debhelper*
+debian/cassandra*.substvars
+debian/cassandra/
+debian/cassandra-tools/
+debian/files
+
+# gitignore doesn't help with modified files - you may wish to:
+# git update-index --assume-unchanged test/data/serialization/2.0/db.RowMutation.bin
+# to undo:
+# git update-index --no-assume-unchanged test/data/serialization/2.0/db.RowMutation.bin
+
+# IntelliJ
+.idea/
+*.eml
+*.iml
+*.ipr
+*.iws
+
+# Eclipse
+.classpath
+.project
+.metadata
+.settings/
+local.properties
+
+# Cscope
+cscope.*
+
+# NetBeans
+nbbuild/
+nbdist/
+ide/nbproject/private
+nb-configuration.xml
+nbactions.xml
+
+# Maven, etc.
+out/
+target/
+
+# General
+*.pyc
+*~
+*.bak
+*.sw[o,p]
+*.tmp
+.DS_Store
+Thumbs.db
+
+# JSR223
+lib/jsr223/clojure/*.jar
+lib/jsr223/groovy/*.jar
+lib/jsr223/jaskell/*.jar
+lib/jsr223/jruby/*.jar
+lib/jsr223/jruby/jni
+lib/jsr223/jruby/ruby
+lib/jsr223/jython/*.jar
+lib/jsr223/jython/cachedir
+lib/jsr223/scala/*.jar
+
+/.ant-targets-build.xml
+
+# Generated files from the documentation
+doc/source/configuration/cassandra_config_file.rst
+doc/source/tools/nodetool
+
+# Python virtual environment
+venv/
