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+[submodule "config/base16-shell"]
+	path = config/base16-shell
+	url = https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-shell.git
diff --git a/config/base16-shell b/config/base16-shell
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+Subproject commit 5acf5629a8bd186399a378c37c10507675525514