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-# | Copyright (C) 2004-2025 The Cacti Group                                 |
-# |                                                                         |
-# | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or           |
-# | modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License             |
-# | as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2          |
-# | of the License, or (at your option) any later version.                  |
-# |                                                                         |
-# | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,         |
-# | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of          |
-# | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the           |
-# | GNU General Public License for more details.                            |
-# +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-# | Cacti: The Complete RRDtool-based Graphing Solution                     |
-# +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-# | This code is designed, written, and maintained by the Cacti Group. See  |
-# | about.php and/or the AUTHORS file for specific developer information.   |
-# +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-# | http://www.cacti.net/                                                   |
-# +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
-# customize style guide
-all
-rule "MD010", code_blocks: false
-rule "MD013", code_blocks: false, tables: false
-rule "MD029", style: "ordered"
-rule "MD046", style: "fenced"
-
-# Lesser rules
-exclude_rule "MD010" # hard tabs
-#exclude_rule "MD013" # line length
-
-# Rule Exclusions
-exclude_rule "MD001" # Headers are useful in other ways
-exclude_rule "MD024" # Headers with same name are useful, but break link labeling (Rework needed on affected files before enabling this rule)
-exclude_rule "MD041" # YAML header is being flagged as not the first
-exclude_rule "MD046" # seems broken