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Getting submodules to follow symlinks?

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Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com>
Date
Dec 9, 2008, 12:55 UTC
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<57518fd10812090455wd109843mfece11eae9e4f593@mail.gmail.com>

My git repository contains a symlink to another repository. I'd like to make that second repository a submodule of the first, in such a way that when someone else clones the repository, there's no trace of the original symlink.

Is this possible? -Jon

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