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+#To validate before committing: 'curl -X POST --data-binary @codecov.yml https://codecov.io/validate'
+
+codecov:
+  strict_yaml_branch: default  # only use the latest YAML on stated branch
+
+ignore:
+  - "examples/*"  # ignore examples
+  - "tests/*"  # ignore unit tests
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