Re: [PATCH 1/2] rm: changes in the '.gitmodules' are staged after using '--cached'

>> Since we won't come to this block when doing index_only, we are
>> allowed to touch the working tree contents and files.  We indeed do
>> "rm -rf" of the submodule working tree and touch .gitmodules file
>> that is in the working tree.
>> 
>> >  			}
>> > +			if (!remove_path_from_gitmodules(path))
>> > +				gitmodules_modified = 1;
>> > +			continue;
>> 
>> But this looks wrong.  It might be OK to remove from the .gitmodules
>> stored in the index, but I fail to see why it is justified to touch
>> the working tree file when "--cached" is given.
>
> No no, you are correct. Phillipe pointed out the same thing. I don't
> know how I made this mistake.
> ...
>> I think you'd need to
>> ...
>
> Yeah, this approach seems perfect. I will do it this way.