Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@xxxxxx> writes: > 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? Wow, that is a unnerving layering violation, but I suspect it is too late to fix it. So perhaps "git submodule rm" would just become a synonym for "git rm"? Thanks.
