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Dec 17, 2012 at 12:26
Even bots submit pull requests on GitHub now!
Hi! I cleaned up your code for you! by GunioRobot · Pull Request #6 · mailchimp/email-blueprints
Hi! I cleaned up your code for you! by GunioRobot · Pull Request #6 · mailchimp/email-blueprints
Hi there! This is WhitespaceBot. I'm an open-source robot that removes trailing white space in your code, and gives you a gitignore file if you didn't have one! Why whitespace? Whitespace i...

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