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+Thanks for your pull request! We appreciate the support. Here are a few steps that will be checked automatically on every pull request. Making sure each of these works locally will help your PR go through with less trouble.
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+Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
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+- [ ] `cargo fmt` to give the code standard formatting
+- [ ] `cargo clippy --all --all-features -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code style
+- [ ] `cargo build; cargo test --all --all-features` to check that all the tests pass