Re: Git submodule remove

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 21, 2021, 23:35 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqee8egddw.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CAHd-oW5PfygyNsRWGg4_W2pxR_HbePvguKRf-bK9RtY3cuAX9g@mail.gmail.com>

Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br> writes:

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> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 7:47 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> 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.