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 The files in this directory are used for configuring IDEs or are used by the build tool to make certain code quality checks.
 
-For example findbugs-ecludes is used by both the build tool's findbugs implementation as well as IDES for running findbugs.
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+For example, findbugs-excludes is used by both the build tool's findbugs implementation as well as IDES for running findbugs.