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 # Spring Boot - Maven 3 - CentOS Docker image
 
-This repository contains the sources and
-[Dockerfile](https://github.com/codecentric/springboot-maven3-centos/blob/master/Dockerfile)
-of the base image for deploying Spring Boot applications as reproducible Docker
-images. The resulting images can be run either by [Docker](http://docker.io)
-or using [S2I](https://github.com/openshift/source-to-image).
+This repository contains the sources and [Dockerfile](https://github.com/codecentric/springboot-maven3-centos/blob/master/Dockerfile) of the base image for deploying Spring Boot applications as reproducible Docker images. The resulting images can be run either by [Docker](http://docker.io) or using [S2I](https://github.com/openshift/source-to-image).
 
-This image is heavily inspired by the awesome [openshift/sti-ruby](https://github.com/openshift/sti-ruby/)
-builder images.
+This image is heavily inspired by the awesome [openshift/sti-ruby](https://github.com/openshift/sti-ruby/) builder images.
 
 ## Usage
 
@@ -60,15 +55,13 @@ $ curl 127.0.0.1:8080
 
 ## Contributing
 
-In order to test your changes to this STI image or to the STI scripts, you can
-use the `test/run` script. Before that, you have to build the 'candidate' image:
+In order to test your changes to this STI image or to the STI scripts, you can use the `test/run` script. Before that, you have to build the 'candidate' image:
 
 ```
 $ docker build -t codecentric/springboot-maven3-centos-candidate .
 ```
 
-After that you can execute `./test/run`. You can also use `make test` to
-automate this.
+After that you can execute `./test/run`. You can also use `make test` to automate this.
 
 ## Copyright