No submodule mapping found in .gitmodules for path

Question

When I run

git submodule update No submodule mapping found in .gitmodules for path 'Classes/lib/AFKissXMLRequestOperation' 

But I have no submodule Classes/lib/AFKissXMLRequestOperation in current repos

My git config is:

[core]     repositoryformatversion = 0     filemode = true     bare = false     logallrefupdates = true     ignorecase = true     precomposeunicode = false [remote "origin"]     fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*     url = [email protected]:why_ios.git [branch "master"]     remote = origin     merge = refs/heads/master [submodule "External/ios-SDNestedTable"]     url = [email protected]:why/ios-SDNestedTable.git [submodule "External/PSStackedView"]     url = [email protected]:why/PSStackedView.git 

and .gitmodules is:

[submodule "External/ios-SDNestedTable"]     path = External/ios-SDNestedTable     url = [email protected]:why/ios-SDNestedTable.git [submodule "External/PSStackedView"]     path = External/PSStackedView     url = [email protected]:why/PSStackedView.git 

Answer 1

check that you have the proper setting in .git/modules as well. Since a few versions ago, git adds an entry there.

Also, the tree probably has a commit object at that path. To get rid of it you can

git rm --cached Classes/lib/AFKissXMLRequestOperation 

that should get rid of it once and for all.

Answer 2

Just leaving this here for anyone using git on Windows. It is possible to follow all of the answers online and still have it not work due to git's handling of path separators. E.g.:

My problem case was adding hugo themes via submodule:

git submodule add https://github.com/danielkvist/hugo-terrassa-theme.git themes\terrassa

will result in a .gitmodules like:

[submodule "themes\\terrassa"]     path = themes\\terrassa     url = https://github.com/danielkvist/hugo-terrassa-theme.git 

Which will cause problems for git submodule [status || init || ...]

Manually replacing the separators to:

[submodule "themes/terrassa"]     path = themes/terrassa     url = https://github.com/danielkvist/hugo-terrassa-theme.git 

...solved it for me.

Also solved the deployment on Netlify since they use *nix server images.