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Fluent API to remove git submodule

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git, typescript
Domain
devtools, tooling

Research direction

Start by reviewing the fluent-git API and its existing submodule operations, then reproduce the reported failure with a submodule containing a .git directory. Define the removal operation's expected behavior from the linked Git guidance and verify that it handles this case without requiring the manual workaround.

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Description

enhancement

I need this 😂

Exception
> [rs-jest]: git submodule deinit -f -- examples/stencil                  (master) 18:48:24
fatal: Submodule work tree 'examples/stencil' contains a .git directory (use 'rm -rf' if you really want to remove it including all of its history)
Workaround
> [rs-jest]: rm -rf examples/stencil/.git                                 (master) 18:48:28
> [rs-jest]: git submodule deinit -f -- examples/stencil                  (master) 18:53:40
Cleared directory 'examples/stencil'
Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
4
Forks
2
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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