Git submodule add: “a git directory is found locally” issue

Question

I\'m actually trying to learn how to use git, including the git submodule subcommands. I already set up a server on which I can host, push and pull git reposito

Answer 1

I came to this SO post trying to add a submodule with the same path as a submodule that I recently deleted.

This is what ultimately worked for me (this article helped out a lot):

If you haven't already run git rm --cached path_to_submodule (no trailing slash) as well as rm -rf path_to_submodule, do that!

Then:

1. Delete the relevant lines from the .gitmodules file. e.g. delete these:

   [submodule "path_to_submodule"] path = path_to_submodule url = https://github.com/path_to_submodule

2. Delete the relevant section from .git/config. e.g. delete these:

   [submodule "path_to_submodule"] url = https://github.com/path_to_submodule

3. rm -rf .git/modules/path_to_submodule

Then, you can finally:

git submodule add https://github.com/path_to_submodule