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"Holding, Lawrence" <Lawrence.Holding@cubic.com> writes:

> How about 
> - creating a "driver" project in the superproject, 
> - add a .gitignore or .git/exclude entry for the
> /s/xyzzy/os/drivers/frotz folder into the os project
> - symlinking the /s/xyzzy/os/drivers/frotz folder to the
> /s/xyzzy/driver/frotz folder

Thanks.

I think that is essentially the same as what I wrote with "symlink" in my
last paragraph as a known-to-work workaround.  The real location of the
frotz driver, whether it is in a directory directly in the superproject,
or a separate submodule that is bound to the superproject outside the "os"
submodule, does not make an essential difference, as long as it is outside
"os".

I was asking if people who have used submodules have better solutions than
that "symlink" solution.