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've just hit this problem.

In my case, this was due to checkout branches with different submodules.

• One branch has some submodules, but
• the other has 2 more submodules.

For some reason, they were impossible to initialize with:

git submodule update --recursive --init

I've needed to manually delete this files/diretories before update worked properly.

{submodule-path}/.git
.git/modules/{submodule}/config