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+{
+  'name' : 'snipmate',
+  'version' : "dev",
+  'author' : "Michael Sanders <msanders42@gmail.com>",
+  'repository' : {'type': 'git', 'url': 'git://github.com/msanders/snipmate.vim.git'},
+  'dependencies' : {},
+  'description' : "snipMate.vim aims to be a concise vim script that implements some of TextMate's snippets features in Vim."
+}