No submodule mapping found in .gitmodules for path and missing .gitmodules file

Question

When I run git submodule init, I get the following error:

No submodule mapping found in .gitmodules for path \'xxx\'

I

Answer 1

just got over the same issue yesterday, after having deleted by hand the entry in .gitmodules (e.g. nano .gitmodules), I had to go with

git rm --cached  

which returned a message

rm ''

then I needed a

git commit -m "delete cached modules"

and validated the submodule deletion.