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 ☤ A Note about VCS Dependencies
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-Pipenv will resolve the sub–depencies of VCS dependencies, but only if they are editable, like so::
+Pipenv will resolve the sub–dependencies of VCS dependencies, but only if they are editable, like so::
 
     [packages]
     requests = {git = "https://github.com/requests/requests.git", editable=true}