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 There is a script that can configure git to automatically check out the latest committed version of the IC submodule on every git pull. Please make sure you run this script at least once after cloning the repo.
 ```
-git-hooks-install
+./git-hooks-install
 ```
 
 To check out the latest version of the IC repo (submodule), you can run: