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+// Copyright 2019 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Package textpb marshals and unmarshals protocol buffer messages as the
+// textproto format.
+
+package textpb