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+[submodule "vendor/libtorrent"]
+	path = vendor/libtorrent
+	url = git@github.com:arvidn/libtorrent.git
diff --git a/vendor/libtorrent b/vendor/libtorrent
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+Subproject commit 24e658aa884cb91bb9918487ba0e9bb51d7bf70f