Git: How to make outer repository and embedded repository work as common/standalone repository?

Question

I have a big project(let\'s say A repo), and it there one child folder which is come from B repo. I would meet warning like below when I commit fr

Answer 1

To elaborate more on rost shan's answer.

I had this issue when working on a Rails application on Ubuntu 20.04.

When I run the command git add . I get the error:

hint: You've added another git repository inside your current repository.
hint: Clones of the outer repository will not contain the contents of
hint: the embedded repository and will not know how to obtain it.
hint: If you meant to add a submodule, use:
hint: 
hint:   git submodule add  letsencrypt_cred
hint: 
hint: If you added this path by mistake, you can remove it from the
hint: index with:
hint: 
hint:   git rm --cached letsencrypt_cred
hint: 
hint: See "git help submodule" for more information.

Here's how I fixed it:

Unstage all already staged files from git for the repo that I am trying to push to:

git rm --cached letsencrypt_cred

OR

git rm -f --cached letsencrypt_cred (to force removal)

Commit all the files that you have in your current directory:

git commit -m "modify credentials"

Add the remote repository that you want to push to:

git remote add origin https://github.com/promisepreston/letsencrypt_cred.git

Push the files to the remote repository

git push -u origin main

OR

git push -u origin master

That's all.

I hope this helps