diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
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--- a/composer.json
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@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "drupal/drupal",
-  "description": "Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications.",
-  "type": "project",
-  "license": "GPL-2.0+",
-  "require": {
-    "drupal/core": "~8.0"
-  },
-  "minimum-stability": "dev",
-  "prefer-stable": true,
-  "repositories": [],
-  "config": {
-    "preferred-install": "dist",
-    "autoloader-suffix": "Drupal8"
-  },
-  "extra": {
-    "_readme": [
-      "This is an example file to show how a Drupal website can be managed via",
-      "Composer. It does not work out of the box but requires a Git subtree",
-      "split of the core directory to be added to the repositories",
-      "section above."
-    ]
-  }
-}
diff --git a/example.composer.json b/example.composer.json
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/example.composer.json
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+{
+  "name": "drupal/drupal",
+  "description": "Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications.",
+  "type": "project",
+  "license": "GPL-2.0+",
+  "require": {
+    "drupal/core": "~8.0"
+  },
+  "minimum-stability": "dev",
+  "prefer-stable": true,
+  "repositories": [],
+  "config": {
+    "preferred-install": "dist",
+    "autoloader-suffix": "Drupal8"
+  },
+  "extra": {
+    "_readme": [
+      "This is an example file to show how a Drupal website can be managed via",
+      "Composer. It does not work out of the box but requires a Git subtree",
+      "split of the core directory to be added to the repositories",
+      "section above."
+    ]
+  }
+}