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-include AUTHORS
-include README.rst
-include LICENSE
-
-# Include tests for downstream testing (https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-django/issues/290).
-recursive-include tests *.py *.txt
-recursive-include pytest_django_test *.json *.py *.txt
-
-recursive-exclude .git *
-recursive-exclude .tox *
-recursive-exclude bin *
-recursive-exclude include *
-recursive-exclude lib *
-recursive-exclude share *
-recursive-exclude src *