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+## Globally Useful gitignores
+
+This directory contains globally useful gitignores.
+
+Here's a good **global** gitignore: 
+<http://help.github.com/git-ignore/>
+
+And a good blog post about 'em:
+<http://augustl.com/blog/2009/global_gitignores>