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+[submodule "Electrical/kicad-libs/kicad-symbols"]
+	path = Electrical/kicad-libs/kicad-symbols
+	url = https://github.com/kicad/kicad-symbols
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+Subproject commit f886cacb58461d356730e744d9d2ae55590825e4