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If the flagged items do not appear to be text
If items relate to a ...
- well-formed pattern.
If you can write a pattern that would match it,
try adding it to the patterns.txt file.
Patterns are Perl 5 Regular Expressions - you can test yours before committing to verify it will match your lines.
Note that patterns can't match multiline strings.
- binary file.
Please add a file path to the excludes.txt file matching the containing file.
File paths are Perl 5 Regular Expressions - you can test yours before committing to verify it will match your files.
^ refers to the file's path from the root of the repository, so ^README\.md$ would exclude README.md (on whichever branch you're using).