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Currently XenForo create one _metadata.json file for every Add-on data type (option, permissions, etc.)
Those metadata files contain mostly hashes as one big JSON object, but also version information for phrases and phrases.

If development is done in multiple branches / by multiple developers those metadata files can easily create merge conflicts even is there is in fact no real conflict (eg. different phrases were added in different branches).

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