Re: Bug with "git mv" and submodules, and with "git submodule add something --force"

Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:

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You would want to be able to remove a submodule and replace it with
a directory, but you can probably do it in two steps, i.e.

        git reset --hard
        git rm --cached sha1collisiondetection
        echo Now a regular dir >sha1collisiondetection/READ.ME
        find sha1collisiondetection ! -type d -print0 |
        git update-index --add --stdin -z

    "Ignoring path sha1collisiondetection/.git"

Nice!

There actually is another possible outcome that anybody following
along must be aware of and be careful about: not even .git directory
exist there, i.e. it is possible that the submodule has never been
init'ed.

So, it is not that nice X-<.