Am 18.10.2011 13:54, schrieb Howard Miller: > I included a submodule in my project then decided I didn't like > submodules and deleted it again. I followed the advice of delting > .gitmodules, the bit from .git/config and then git rm'ing the > submodule. Seemed to work. I then copied files with the same directory > name into where the submodule was. However, I can't add them. > > Doing git add /path/to/old/submodule - does nothing, files are not > staged, no error messages no nothing. > If I try to git rm /path/to/old/submodule - it just says 'did not > match any files'. > > It simply does not seem to want to add anything to the old submodule > location. I had a grep around and could not see any obvious references > in the repo. > > I'm a bit stuck... any suggestions for things I can try much appreciated. Looks like the gitlink entry of the submodule is still there. I assume git ls-files --stage | grep 160000 still shows the submodule? That would make it impossible to add anything in the former submodule directory. When I delete .gitmodules and the .git/config entry and do a git rm sub/ I get fatal: pathspec 'sub/' did not match any files If I omit the trailing slash it is: fatal: git rm: 'sub': Is a directory I have to do a rm -rf sub followed by git rm sub to get everything cleaned up. Does that help you? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html