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-client
-vas
-conf/closure
-conf/node_modules/
-conf/properties.json
-src/closure/conf/depswriter/
-src/vitis/vas/log/
-src/vitis/vas/public/
-src/vitis/vas/server/
-src/vitis/vas/ws_data/
-src/vitis/vas/tmp/
-src/vitis/client/modules/
-! src/vitis/client/modules/vitis/
-src/vitis/vas/rest/ws/*
-! src/vitis/vas/rest/ws/vitis/
-src/vitis/vas/sql/*
-! src/vitis/vas/sql/sqlQueries.xml