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+# Development Setup
+
+By default, `go get` does not work for private GitHub repos. This will fix that.
+1. `git config --global url."git@github.com:".insteadOf "https://github.com/"`
+2. `go get github.com/8thlight/vulcanizedb`
+
+# Running the Tests
+
+`go test`