How to remove submodule from Gitlab repository

Question

I'm trying to remove a single submodule from the repository. After submodule was removed from .gitmodule I started getting an exception message fatal: No url found for submodule path

Output of git status is

On branch task/My-task
Your branch is up to date with origin/task/My-task

.gitmodules content is

[submodule "MySubmodule"]
    path = MySubmodule
    url = ../MySubmodule.git

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1260982/7976758 Found in https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bgit-submodules%5D+remove — phd, Mar 29 '23 at 17:11

Aleksandr Tereshchenko · Accepted Answer · 2023-03-31T06:47:49.887

First of all find submodule path with the git submodule command. The second step is to remove all the references to this submodule with commands called one-by-one:

git submodule deinit {submodule path}.
git rm --cached {submodule path}.
Remove a folder with the submodule. That's all. All that's left to do is commit the changes.
git config --remove-section submodule.{submodule path}

Ex:

git submodule deinit MySubmodule
git rm --cached MySubmodule.
git config --remove-section submodule.MySubmodule

How to remove submodule from Gitlab repository

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