[well-formed commit message]: https://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html

#### Merging pull requests ####

Due to Guava's nature as a subset of Google's internal codebase which is
automatically synced to the public GitHub repository, we are unable to merge
pull requests directly into the master branch. Instead, once a pull request is
ready for merging, we'll make the appropriate changes in the internal codebase

The binary compatibility check runs as a part of the broader sanity check.
The latter runs on every PR and is a prerequisite for merging.

If you run the sanity check locally with the `./gradlew sanityCheck`, you can see the binary compatibility error in the output.
It looks like the following:

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