Octopress Build Error

Question

I'm working on a post on my Octopress blog, and everything seems to be pushing up to my github account correctly. However, when I run rake generate, I get the following email:

The page build failed with the following error:

The submodule `.themes/whitespace` was not properly initialized with a `.gitmodules` file. 

This is preventing my last post from going live on the page. I've found a few responses that suggested deleting the file, but wouldn't that delete my theme? Anyone know what to do?

Answer 1

I had some merge errors, that once fixed, still didn't work. So I went back to an old commit, and remade the post. After that everything works!