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 Package: cli
 Title: Helpers for Developing Command Line Interfaces
-Version: 3.6.4
+Version: 3.6.4.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Gábor", "Csárdi", , "gabor@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", role = "ctb"),
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+# cli (development version)
+
 # cli 3.6.4
 
 * Pluralization now handles edge cases (`NA`, `NaN`, `Inf` and `-Inf`)