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+You are opening a _bug report_ against the LibGit2Sharp project: we
+use GitHub Issues for tracking bug reports and feature requests.  If
+you have a question about an API or usage, please ask on StackOverflow:
+http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/libgit2sharp.
+
+Otherwise, to report a bug, please fill out the reproduction steps
+(below) and delete these introductory paragraphs.  Thanks!
+
+### Reproduction steps
+
+### Expected behavior
+
+### Actual behavior
+
+### Version of LibGit2Sharp (release number or SHA1)
+
+### Operating system(s) tested; .NET runtime tested