Submodule.remove() now deals with .git files correctly.

A simple test verifies this at least.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/git/repo/base.py b/git/repo/base.py
index 6d9af6d4..74e72aa5 100644
--- a/git/repo/base.py
+++ b/git/repo/base.py
@@ -131,14 +131,18 @@ class Repo(object):
 
         # walk up the path to find the .git dir
         while curpath:
+            # ABOUT os.path.NORMPATH
+            # It's important to normalize the paths, as submodules will otherwise initialize their 
+            # repo instances with paths that depend on path-portions that will not exist after being 
+            # removed. It's just cleaner.
             if is_git_dir(curpath):
-                self.git_dir = curpath
+                self.git_dir = os.path.normpath(curpath)
                 self._working_tree_dir = os.path.dirname(self.git_dir)
                 break
 
             gitpath = find_git_dir(join(curpath, '.git'))
             if gitpath is not None:
-                self.git_dir = gitpath
+                self.git_dir = os.path.normpath(gitpath)
                 self._working_tree_dir = curpath
                 break