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+[submodule "lib/middleman/templates/html5boilerplate/source"]
+	path = lib/middleman/templates/html5boilerplate/source
+	url = git://github.com/paulirish/html5-boilerplate.git
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+Subproject commit ff29c100515ecb4dd82da5a2f8a4d3e2d0563acf