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Will a site generated from files on Github be duplicate content ito SEO?

I'm working on a project (discussed here) and having people submit their posts in markdown to an "internal" project on Gitlab.

I'd rather have the posts be in a public repository on Github but I'm worried that having the content there; and a site generated from that markdown will look like duplicate content to search engines.

Anyone have experience/thoughts about this?

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    I'm not sure if they will be detected as duplicate but once they are posted onto the project if you add a canonical tag to say that the project is the main source for this content. The answer on this question seems to cover it https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/76924/will-google-penalize-me-for-duplicate-content-on-github-from-my-knowledge-base

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      Ah yeah that canonical tag is a great idea. Thanks for the response!