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 ## Hard rules
 
-* **YOU DO NOT MERGE THE PR YOURSELF. NEVER MERGE THE PR YOURSELF.**
 * Never lose work: no orphaned stashes, no dropped files, no force-pushes
   that discard commits.
 * Always post the URLs to every pull request you created.