git submodule error

Question

Getting this error:

fatal: cannot read object aab1ca8db3ab8f1508db42220f9badc7b62dd4aa 'vendor/plugins/simple_stuff': It is a submodule!

When doing git pull from the main repo. I don't have any submodule defined any where inside my project, still I have another repo inside vendor/plugins/simple_stuff. Any ideas?

Answer 1

After reading the "git submodules gotcha" article, did you try a

 $ git pull -s resolve

(the 'resolve' merge strategy may be able to avoid that message)
(Someone may have reorganized the sources and define a submodule, pushing it to your remote repo from which you are now trying to pull)