From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 07:18:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug with "git mv" and submodules, and with "git submodule add something --force"
Message-ID: <xmqq36svolrz.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20181022215236.72238-1-sbeller@google.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

>> You would want to be able to remove a submodule and replace it with
>> a directory, but you can probably do it in two steps, i.e.
>>
>>         git reset --hard
>>         git rm --cached sha1collisiondetection
>>         echo Now a regular dir >sha1collisiondetection/READ.ME
>>         find sha1collisiondetection ! -type d -print0 |
>>         git update-index --add --stdin -z
>
>     "Ignoring path sha1collisiondetection/.git"
>
> Nice!

There actually is another possible outcome that anybody following
along must be aware of and be careful about: not even .git directory
exist there, i.e. it is possible that the submodule has never been
init'ed.

So, it is not that nice X-<.