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 Package: cli
 Title: Helpers for Developing Command Line Interfaces
-Version: 3.6.2
+Version: 3.6.2.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Gábor", "Csárdi", , "csardi.gabor@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", role = "ctb"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+# cli (development version)
+
 # cli 3.6.2
 
 * `ansi_collapse(x, trunc = 1, style = "head")` now indeed shows one