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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
+ subject="comment 2"
+ date="2019-09-16T23:44:48Z"
+ content="""
+You could also [git-replace](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-replace) the pointer file with the symlink.
+"""]]