nother repository (the latter of
which is called <a href="#def_superproject">superproject</a>).</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1"><a id="def_superproject"></a>superproject</dt>
<dd>
<p>A <a href="#def_repository">repository</a> that references repositories
of other projects in its working tree as <a href="#def_submodule">submodules</a>.
The superproject knows about the names of (but does not hold
copies of) commit objects of the contained submodules.</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1"><a id="def_symref"></a>symref</