Subject: Re: Getting submodules to follow symlinks?

From: "Edward Z. Yang" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:29:32 -0500

Jonathan del Strother wrote:
> 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.

Yeah. If you register the submodule and then commit, the first
repository would contain the submodule information, and anyone who loads
submodules in another clone will not see the symlink.

Cheers,
Edward