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+# Contributions to serilog/serilog
+
+Simple .NET logging with fully-structured events
+
+This repository holds only my commits to the upstream project, with their original author, date and diff.
+Each of my commits is preceded by a snapshot of the upstream files it touched, so every diff shows exactly what I changed.
+
+## Merged pull requests
+
+- [fix: avoid OverflowException when alignment width is int.MinValue](https://github.com/serilog/serilog/pull/2247) (2026-09-13)