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From: "Jonathan del Strother" <maillist@steelskies.com>
Subject: Getting submodules to follow symlinks?
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:55:47 +0000
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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