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+[submodule "plugins"]
+	path = plugins
+	url = https://github.com/invesalius/inv3_plugins
diff --git a/plugins b/plugins
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+Subproject commit 174ce90075e6f5467cf3c064fd0d8839233733ec
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libgit2 0.21.2