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Specutils
=========
-.. image:: https://github.com/astropy/specutils/workflows/CI/badge.svg
- :target: https://github.com/astropy/specutils/actions
- :alt: GitHub Actions CI Status
+|CI| |Coverage| |Docs| |Astropy|
-.. image:: https://codecov.io/github/astropy/specutils/branch/master/graph/badge.svg
- :target: https://codecov.io/github/astropy/specutils
- :alt: Coverage Status
+.. |CI| image:: https://github.com/astropy/specutils/workflows/CI/badge.svg
+ :target: https://github.com/astropy/specutils/actions
+ :alt: GitHub Actions CI Status
-.. image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/specutils/badge/?version=latest
- :target: http://specutils.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest
- :alt: Documentation Status
+.. |Coverage| image:: https://codecov.io/github/astropy/specutils/branch/main/graph/badge.svg
+ :target: https://codecov.io/github/astropy/specutils
+ :alt: Coverage Status
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- :target: http://www.astropy.org/
- :alt: Powered by Astropy
+.. |Docs| image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/specutils/badge/?version=latest
+ :target: http://specutils.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest
+ :alt: Documentation Status
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+ :target: http://www.astropy.org/
+ :alt: Powered by Astropy
Specutils is an `Astropy affiliated package `_
with the goal of providing a shared set of Python representations of
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which is licensed under the BSD 3-clause license. See the ``licenses`` folder for
more information.
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Contributing
------------
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git branch -u origin/main main
If you are using a GUI to manage your repos you'll have to find the equivalent commands as it's different for different programs. Alternatively, you can just delete your local clone and re-clone!
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