From: Leandro Lucarella <leandro.lucarella@sociomantic.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:34:46 GMT
Subject: Getting "The following submodule paths contain changes that can not be found on any remote" when they are in the remote
Message-ID: <20160823203446.40abfd37@labs-064.localdomain>

Hi, I'm getting very often, but not always, with many different
projects using submodules, the message:

  The following submodule paths contain changes that can
  not be found on any remote:
    <module>

  Please try

  	git push --recurse-submodules=on-demand

  or cd to the path and use

  	git push

  to push them to a remote.

  fatal: Aborting.

This even happens after doing a:

git submodule deinit <module>
rm -fr <module>
rm -fr .git/modules/<module>
git submodule update --init

So I am getting the reference from the remote, but when pushing a new
change (that doesn't touch the submodules) I keep getting this error.

I tried to get more information about why this is happening but I
couldn't. Googling didn't help either, so I'm resorting to ask here.

I would also like to report a tiny bug, when using push --quiet, I do
get all the message above except for the <module> name, which is quite
confusing.

$ git --version
git version 2.9.3

(running under Ubuntu 14.04)

Please CC me, and thanks a lot in advance!

-- 
Leandro Lucarella
Technical Development Lead
Sociomantic Labs GmbH <http://www.sociomantic.com>