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-# Configuration for Repo Lockdown - https://github.com/dessant/repo-lockdown
-
-name: 'Repo Lockdown'
-
-on:
-  pull_request_target:
-    types: opened
-
-permissions:
-  pull-requests: write
-
-jobs:
-  action:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: dessant/repo-lockdown@v2
-        with:
-          pr-comment: |
-            Thank you for your interest in the QEMU project.
-
-            This repository is a read-only mirror of the project's repostories hosted
-            on https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu.git.
-            The project does not process merge requests filed on GitHub.
-
-            QEMU welcomes contributions of code (either fixing bugs or adding new
-            functionality). However, we get a lot of patches, and so we have some
-            guidelines about contributing on the project website:
-            https://www.qemu.org/contribute/
-          lock-pr: true
-          close-pr: true