diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
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-[submodule "third_party/rocksdb"]
-	path = third_party/rocksdb
-	url = https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb.git
diff --git a/third_party/rocksdb b/third_party/rocksdb
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index 540d5aa..0000000
--- a/third_party/rocksdb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 540d5aae516265170564ec27b3e67a54a11b7045