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From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-07-04 08:34:48


On 7/4/19 3:34 AM, Gavin Lambert via Boost wrote:
> On 4/07/2019 07:35, Andrey Semashev wrote:
>> On 7/3/19 6:48 PM, James E. King III wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 11:26 AM Andrey Semashev wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Doesn't the disjoint_sets git submodule need to be removed from the
>>>> superproject?
>>>
>>> It was removed from develop in
>>> https://github.com/boostorg/boost/pull/283
>>
>> Strangely enough, it is still present in my .git/config, even after
>> `git pull` and `git submodule update` in the Boost root.
>
> What exists in your config file is as a result of the submodule init
> commands, and does not get cleared because upstream removed the submodule.
>
> The thing to check whether upstream still wants the submodule to exist
> or not is the contents of the .gitmodules file.
>
> Once you have confirmed that the module is no longer listed in
> .gitmodules, run:
>
>    git submodule deinit module-name
>
> to remove it from your .git/config.  This also deletes the directory on
> disk, AFAIK (although I've never actually used this command myself, so
> YMMV).

Thanks. The command fails if there is no directory, so I simply removed
the lines from .git/config.


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