diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
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@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
+DUMMY CHANGE
 Please see the online documentation for the latest changelog:
 https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/blob/master/doc/source/changes.rst