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 git clone https://gitlab.cvh-server.de/aco/cvh-olp.git
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+
+### Structure
+
+Required repositories for other services will be pulled into this drirectory.
+For every service there will be created a seperate data/config directory which is independend to the repository
+and can be recreated if neccessary.
+This helps also to unify the paths to all configuration files.
+Every relative path will be defined from the location of the `docker-compose.base.yml` file.
+
 ## Nice to know
 
 ### Creating a new user