jacksonpires · February 11, 2021 22:08
diff --git a/remove-submodule.sh b/remove-submodule.sh

 # In most cases, a single Rails app will be attached to a single repo

 # As of Rails 5.1, initializing a new project will also automatically initialize Git

 # This is perfect in most circumstances, but at App Academy, students have homework and 
 # project repos that contain multiple rails apps inside them

 # To account for this without pushing the submodules, students need to remove the .git
 # directory before adding and commiting the new project, but most do not, resulting in
 # unwanted submodules and missing work in the repo

 # This gist is intended to walk through how to remove the submodule and re-add the missing
 # files inside that directory


 # NOTE:
 # ONLY do this if you do not care about tracking previous commits associated with the
 # submodule repo


 # Navigate to the directory above the submodule
 cd path/to/dir

 # Tell git to remove the submodule from its tracking
 git rm -r --cached sub_module_folder

 # Check to see that the submodule folder is untracked
 git status

 # Remove the submodule's .git
 # MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE THE TRAILING /.git
 rm -rf sub_module_folder/.git

 # Now add the folder
 git add sub_module_folder

 # Check that all the files have been added
 git status

 # Commit the submodule's folder and push!
 git commit -m "Fix submodule"
 git push origin master