Why do I get “fatal: git status --porcelain failed”?

Question

This is a huge pain in the bum. I\'ve got this a few times before and I don\'t understand why. 5 mins ago the repo was fine and working, I move some files around (which is a

Answer 1

I managed to solve the issue as follows:

Lets assume subfolder is the submodule where I was facing the issue, I moved/deleted the folder then sync and then update...

mv AD_Soft/subfolder AD_Soft/subfolder2 git submodule sync --recursive AD_Soft/subfolder/ git submodule update --recursive AD_Soft/subfolder

This solves the issue for me..