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  r68276 | tarek.ziade | 2009-01-04 01:04:49 +0100 (Sun, 04 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  fixed #1702551: distutils sdist was not pruning VCS directories under win32
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+- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under 
+  Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
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 - Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
   constants in the decimal module.  (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)