Re: Suggestion: git submodule remove

From: Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date: Apr 11, 2015, 12:15 UTC
Message-ID: <5529106D.7050301@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <CABEDGg8Gos8UTi2U_xgMpx2dJtbtSNCCd2gRr_KR1qESB6gYYA@mail.gmail.com>

Am 10.04.2015 um 13:33 schrieb Konrád Lőrinczi:

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> I really miss the
>    git submodule remove
> command.
>
> This should be handle all the tasks what are needed to remove a submodule.
>      - Delete the relevant line from the .gitmodules file.
>      - Delete the relevant section from .git/config.
>      - Run git rm --cached path_to_submodule (no trailing slash).
>      - Delete the now untracked submodule files.
>
> These tasks should be handled automatically.
> Currently you can only remove a submodule manually, no way to do it
> automatically with one command.
> "Removing submodules" and "unsubmodule a submodule" are still a pain
> to do in GIT, even in v2.3.5.

"git rm <submodule-path>" will remove a submodule from .gitmodules, the index and the work tree (but not from .git/config, that's what "git submodule deinit" is for).