Why are submodules repeated so often?

[jfingerh]

Here is the structure of submodules of this repository, and the submodules of those repositories, as of 2021-Dec-21:

+ p4-dpdk-target
  + target-syslibs @ f646177
    + gperftools @ f7c6fb6
    + zlog @ 876099f
  + target-utils @ 61969dd
    + cJSON @ d348621
    + cpython @ 3d8993a
    + target-syslibs @ 580b5e5    Repeat of target-syslibs above.  Why?
    + tommyds @ 5ada275
    + xxHash @ 94e5f23
  + tdi @ 21da36e
    + target-syslibs @ 4f765f5    Repeat of target-syslibs above.  Why?
    + target-utils @ 243a99e      Repeat of target-utils above.    Why?

Is it intentional that so many submodules are repeated? If so, why?

[swaroopsarma]

this is not intentional. we are going to address this

[swaroopsarma]

this is addressed after migrating to tdi