diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
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--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "htslib"]
-	path = htslib
-	url = https://github.com/samtools/htslib
diff --git a/htslib b/htslib
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index 70df047..0000000
--- a/htslib
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 70df0479771fa28e927c01de4c5ca95f1e63ebba