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+[submodule "vendor/github.com/coreos/etcd"]
+	path = vendor/github.com/coreos/etcd
+	url = https://github.com/coreos/etcd/
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+Subproject commit 3e057129e2ad9deac4b8dffb65af6e6f980dcd58