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Asked: 2026-05-31T23:52:58+00:00

I have a git repository with submodules in the directory projects/myRepo and I want

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I have a git repository with submodules in the directory projects/myRepo and I want to rename the directory to projects/my-repo.

According to this question it can simply be done with mv. But in a repo with submodules git keeps telling me

fatal: Not a git repository: projects/myRepo/.git/path/to/submodule“`

even for git status.

Submodule config:

[submodule "path/to/submodule"]  
   path = path/to/submodule  
   url = https://github.com/user/projectName.git

Somehow the ‘internal path’ for the submodule does not get updated?! Is there a way to tell git to update these submodule paths?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Since Weston‘s test (clone, init and update of a submodule in a cloned repo) worked as expected when renaming the directory including said submodule, I suspect something must have been wrong in the submodule .git itself in your original Git repo submodule.

    You could compare/look for any file referencing ‘myRepo‘ in that first submodule.
    you can also compare the content of the two submodules (the first one you tried to rename, and the second one included in the repo that you cloned)

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