git - No submodule mapping found in .gitmodules for path

Question

When I run

git submodule update
No submodule mapping found in .gitmodules for path 'Classes/lib/AFKissXMLRequestOperation'

But I have no submodule Classes/lib/AFKissXMLRequestOperation in current repos

My git config is:

[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = true
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
    ignorecase = true
    precomposeunicode = false
[remote "origin"]
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
    url = git@github.com:why_ios.git
[branch "master"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/master
[submodule "External/ios-SDNestedTable"]
    url = git@github.com:why/ios-SDNestedTable.git
[submodule "External/PSStackedView"]
    url = git@github.com:why/PSStackedView.git

and .gitmodules is:

[submodule "External/ios-SDNestedTable"]
    path = External/ios-SDNestedTable
    url = git@github.com:why/ios-SDNestedTable.git
[submodule "External/PSStackedView"]
    path = External/PSStackedView
    url = git@github.com:why/PSStackedView.git

Answer 1

check that you have the proper setting in .git/modules as well. Since a few versions ago, git adds an entry there.

Also, the tree probably has a commit object at that path. To get rid of it you can

git rm --cached Classes/lib/AFKissXMLRequestOperation

that should get rid of it once and for all.