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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>, GDB <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: gdb.git mirror is broken
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>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> writes:

Jim> Since some directories are shared between projects, one way would
Jim> be to make each directory into its own git repository.
Jim> Then, a separate gdb.git repository would include them
Jim> via a git submodule.

I thought that submodules could not be used to share files in the
top-level directory.  This is why I think submodules are not a viable
solution for src -- anything in that directory is shared, not only by
all the src projects, but also by gcc.

Tom