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+from setuptools import setup
+
+setup(
+    name="gitdb2",
+    version="4.0.2",
+    author="Sebastian Thiel",
+    author_email="byronimo@gmail.com",
+    description="A mirror package for gitdb",
+    long_description="This is a mirror package for `gitdb <https://pypi.org/project/gitdb/>`_. Consider installing it directly instead.",
+    url="https://github.com/gitpython-developers/gitdb",
+    install_requires=["gitdb>=4.0.1"],
+)