Add submodule support
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
I want to run two different blogs with the same content. To accomplish this I decided to store the `/content` folder as a different repo and then add it via `git add submodule` to the respective repos of both the blogs.
When I built the blogs (on Netlify) using Hugo, there were no issues. However, when I logged in to Netlify CMS, none of the posts was displayed. When I tried to create a post, I got the following error: `Failed to persist entry: API_ERROR: GitRPC::BadObjectState`.
I expected Netlify CMS to read the content from the submodule and allow additions/modifications to it.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
Netlify CMS should be able to **detect and write content to an existing submodule**.
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
I couldn't think of any other alternative except for cloning the content folder of one blog to the other whenever I make an update. However, an author who doesn't have repo access won't be able to do so.
**Additional context**
The repo where I was trying to implement this can be found here: https://github.com/ragasirtahk/backend
Just in case I made some mistake and Netlify CMS already supports this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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