Removing a Git Submodule ☆

Posted by ant
October 7th, 2008
Filed in Rails, Sysadmin

References to git submodules appear in

  .git/config
  .gitmodules

These references need removing. The cached local copy can be removed with

  git rm --cached path/to/submodule
  rm -r path/to/submodule

Note the lack of the trailing slash!