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+# must be unique in a given SonarQube instance
+sonar.projectKey=finereport.design
+# this is the name displayed in the SonarQube UI
+sonar.projectName=finereport.design
+sonar.projectVersion=1.0
+sonar.branch=master
+ 
+# Path is relative to the sonar-project.properties file. Replace "\" by "/" on Windows.
+# Since SonarQube 4.2, this property is optional if sonar.modules is set. 
+# If not set, SonarQube starts looking for source code from the directory containing 
+# the sonar-project.properties file.
+sonar.sources=.
+ 
+# Encoding of the source code. Default is default system encoding
+#sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8
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