diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+# Don’t commit the following directories created by pub.
+.buildlog
+.pub/
+build/
+packages
+
+# Or the files created by dart2js.
+*.dart.js
+*.js_
+*.js.deps
+*.js.map
+
+# Include when developing application packages.
+pubspec.lock
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diff --git a/.status b/.status
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+# Copyright (c) 2014, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+# for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+# BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+# Skip non-test files ending with "_test".
+*/packages/*: Skip
+
+# Only run tests from the build directory, since we don't care about the
+# difference between transformed an untransformed code.
+test/*: Skip
+
+[ $compiler == dart2js && $minified ]
+# The unminified matcher tests test that the real names of Dart types are
+# printed. Minified versions of these tests exist that test the behavior when
+# minified.
+*_unminified_test: Skip # DO NOT COPY THIS UNLESS YOU WORK ON DART2JS
+
+[ $minified == false ]
+# The minified matcher tests test that the minified names of Dart types are
+# printed. Unminified versions of these tests exist that test the behavior when
+# not minified.
+matcher/test/*_minified_test: Skip # DO NOT COPY THIS UNLESS YOU WORK ON DART2JS
diff --git a/codereview.settings b/codereview.settings
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+CODE_REVIEW_SERVER: http://codereview.chromium.org/
+VIEW_VC: https://github.com/dart-lang/matcher/commit/
+CC_LIST: reviews@dartlang.org
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