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 src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10923085/216749496-27f0b241-c05b-4aec-ba88-a7c8c91938a6.gif"
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+## Motivation
+
+I created this plugin because I use SyncThing and it bothered me to clean up merge conflicts by hand.
 
 ## Installation