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+# Ignore reason: These artifacts are used by the Make based build recipes on windows.
+# note: Windows doesn't provide an ubiquitous package manager we could depends on
+# to have these tools available on the user host machine.
+ignorePaths:
+- tools/make.exe
+- tools/win/grep.exe
+- tools/win/gzip.exe
+- tools/win/libiconv2.dll
+- tools/win/libintl3.dll
+- tools/win/mkdir.exe
+- tools/win/pcre3.dll
+- tools/win/regex2.dll
+- tools/win/rm.exe
+- tools/win/sed.exe