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To remove a submodule you need to:

• Delete the relevant section from the .gitmodules file.
• Stage the .gitmodules changes git add .gitmodules
• Delete the relevant section from .git/config.
• Run git rm --cached path_to_submodule (no trailing slash).
• Run rm -rf .git/modules/path_to_submodule (no trailing slash).
• Commit git commit -m "Removed submodule "
• Delete the now untracked submodule files rm -rf path_to_submodule

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/**
 * Mimics PHP's ucfirst function.
 *
 * @param  subject The string to be ucfirst'd
 * @return The subject string with an uppercased first character
 */
final public static String ucfirst(String subject)
{
    return Character.toUpperCase(subject.charAt(0)) + subject.substring(1);
}

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Let's say you start a project locally, and do some editing.

$ mkdir -p ~/git/foo && cd ~/git/foo
$ touch NEWFILE

Now you decide you want to create a new github repo and track it, but the directory is non-empty so git won't let you clone into it. You can fix this, thusly:

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# Script : get_meta.py
# Source : https://gist.github.com/jeffaudi/9fcac727cf6251287ecc/
# Copyright (c) 2014, Jeff Faudi
# All rights reserved.
#  
# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
#  
#  * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
#    list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

desaiuditd

To remove a submodule you need to:

Delete the relevant line from the .gitmodules file.
Delete the relevant section from .git/config.
Run git rm --cached path_to_submodule (no trailing slash).
Commit and delete the now untracked submodule files.