Fatal error on "git add submodule"
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Solution
I think you mean to use `git submodule add <repository> <path>`, not `git add submodule`, which would just add a file named `submodule` to your index.
Problem
I get the following error when I try adding a submodule to my repository: fatal: pathspec 'submodule' did not match any files I had some issues with my submodules so I had to remove them all (removed them from `.gitmodules`, `.git/config`, cleaned the index using `rm --cached submodule_path`, even did `git reset --mixed`). But now I can't seem to be able to add any submodule at all! I looked through the whole .git folder in search for references to my previous submodules and couldn't find anything. Have I run out of options? (now that I think of it I might have deleted a repository to which was referenced a submodule at some point, but that submodule is now gone so why would this be a problem?)