Git Submodule Silently Became Regular Files — How I Diagnosed and Fixed It

contact@khadirullah.com (Khadirullah Mohammad) — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I ran git submodule update --remote --merge and nothing happened. My Hugo theme was stuck at an old version. Turns out I had accidentally replaced the submodule with manually copied files without realizing it. Here’s how I diagnosed the git state mismatch, restored the proper submodule, and fixed the Cloudflare Pages deployment failure that followed.

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Git Submodule Silently Became Regular Files — How I Diagnosed and Fixed It