I'm beginner to git & I have the following folder structure for new project, so what I did is I went to visual studio and I made empty project it has this folder structure:
project: (Repo)
folder1 (sub1)
folder2 (sub2)
I'm using git locally.
I created a repo for project using sourcetree,
now I cannot add any submodule, I don't know why.
In powershell whenever I try:
PS E:\Projects\Project> git submodule add ./sub1
I get the following error:
sub1 already exists in the index
then I decided to remove sub1 using git rm -r sub1
,and add it again, then when I tried to add it again using git submodule add
again, I received this new error:
sub1 already exists and is not a valid git repo
So what I'm doing wrong?
Adding a submodule means cloning another git repo inside an existing one and keep a reference to it.
In your case, you did not specify which repo you want to add:
git submodule add -- /url/of/sub1/repo sub1
if sub1
or sub2
are not supposed to be git repos of their own, but simple sub-folder of the main repo folder, then you do not need git submodule add
command.
Simply add files in sub1
and sub2
, and you will be able to git add
and git commit
them.
No submodule involved.