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-This purpose of this fork is maintain a clean repo that only contains the keyboard code that we need, and as little else as possible.  This is to keep it lightweight, since we only need a couple of keyboards, since this is the repo that the EZ Configurator will pull from. 
+This purpose of this fork is maintain a clean repo that only contains the keyboard code that we need, and as little else as possible.  This is to keep it lightweight, since we only need a couple of keyboards. This is the repo that the EZ Configurator will pull from. 
 
 ## Supported Keyboards