From aed61ed207ca481184b8f9c0c18b8221f71dca97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fu Hanxi <fuhanxi@espressif.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 09:09:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ci: remove cached submodule metadata while checking with
 github

---
 .gitlab/ci/deploy.yml | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/.gitlab/ci/deploy.yml b/.gitlab/ci/deploy.yml
index a149c440a2..59bdd89c44 100644
--- a/.gitlab/ci/deploy.yml
+++ b/.gitlab/ci/deploy.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ check_submodule_sync:
   dependencies: []
   script:
     - git submodule deinit --force .
+    - rm -rf .git/modules  # remove all the cached metadata
     # setting the default remote URL to the public one, to resolve relative location URLs
     - git config remote.origin.url ${PUBLIC_IDF_URL}
     # check if all submodules are correctly synced to public repository