diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index ce1eb340..4faeb503 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
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@@ -28,4 +28,3 @@ project. For more details see:
 
 Contributors should reformat their code similarly before submitting code to
 the project, in order to minimize merge conflicts with other work.
->>>>>>> Add further documentation files