How to “resolve fatal: Not a git repository”?

Question

I was trying to remove one sub-module from the project

Tried rm -rf .git/modules/submodulePath

After that I am having the issue

Answer 1

I ran into this error after I moved a git repository to a different folder. When I looked in:

{submodule}/.git

I saw a single line with an absolute path, e.g.:

gitdir: /Users/ajx/Documents/repo/.git/modules/{submodule}

I changed this to a relative path, e.g.:

gitdir: ../../.git/modules/{submodule}

I'm not sure why git would hardcode absolute paths...