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+src/js/enqueues/vendor/** linguist-vendored
+src/wp-includes/ID3/** linguist-vendored
+src/wp-includes/IXR/** linguist-vendored
+src/wp-includes/PHPMailer/** linguist-vendored
+src/wp-includes/Requests/** linguist-vendored
+src/wp-includes/SimplePie/** linguist-vendored
+src/wp-includes/sodium_compat/** linguist-vendored
+src/wp-includes/Text/** linguist-vendored