On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 7:47 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On 2021-10-21 at 17:25:38, Kalyan Sriram wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I was curious why git-submodule does not have an `rm` command. Currently > >> I have to manually delete it from .gitmodules, .git/config, > >> .git/modules/, etc. See [0]. > >> [...] > I'd imagine that the happy-case implementation should be fairly > straight-forward. You would: > > - ensure that the submodule is "absorbed" already; > > - run "git rm -f" the submodule to remove the gitlink from the index > and remove the directory from the working tree; and > > - remove the .gitmodules entry for the submodule. I think "git rm <submodule>" already does these three steps, doesn't it?
