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 Welcome to OctoPrint's documentation!
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+This is a work in progress. The goal is to document OctoPrint's REST API, event system, configuration etc in way that
+allows different documentation per development branch in Git, which so far did not scale well with the Github-Wiki-based
+approach.
+
 Contents:
 
 .. toctree::