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Re: git with ssh won't pull submodule

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EHErik Haller <erik.haller@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 29, 2017, 22:23 UTC
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Ah. I was able to get it to work with the ssh protocol and a relative path. Thank you for your help.

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Erik,
>
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Erik Haller <erik.haller@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Getting the following error for a submodule when using git/ssh:
>>
>> $ git clone --recursive ssh://incense:/home/erik/git/nacl.git
>> Cloning into 'nacl'...
>> remote: Counting objects: 32, done.
>> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (25/25), done.
>> remote: Total 32 (delta 5), reused 0 (delta 0)
>> Receiving objects: 100% (32/32), 16.50 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
>> Resolving deltas: 100% (5/5), done.
>> Submodule 'vendor/golang.org/x/crypto'
>> (file:///home/erik/git/github.com/golang/crypto.git) registered for
>> path 'vendor/golang.org/x/crypto'
>
> This is the problem. The .gitmodules entry in nacl.git uses an
> absolute path (or URI in this case) for the submodule. Git does
> exactly what it should and tries to clone it.
>
> The solution to this is to use a relative path[1] in .gitmodules
> (either edit it by hand or do git rm & git submodule add). Note that
> by using a relative path it assumes that the parent and submodule
> repositories are hosted in the same location (which may or may not be
> true for your use-case).
>
> --
> [1] - see the 3rd paragraph for the add command in
> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-submodule
>
>> Cloning into '/home/erik/go/src/nacl/vendor/golang.org/x/crypto'...
>> fatal: '/home/erik/git/github.com/golang/crypto.git' does not appear
>> to be a git repository
>> fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
>>
>> Please make sure you have the correct access rights
>> and the repository exists.
>> fatal: clone of 'file:///home/erik/git/github.com/golang/crypto.git'
>> into submodule path
>> '/home/erik/go/src/nacl/vendor/golang.org/x/crypto' failed
>> Failed to clone 'vendor/golang.org/x/crypto'. Retry scheduled
>> Cloning into '/home/erik/go/src/nacl/vendor/golang.org/x/crypto'...
>> fatal: '/home/erik/git/github.com/golang/crypto.git' does not appear
>> to be a git repository
>> fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
>>
>> Please make sure you have the correct access rights
>> and the repository exists.
>> fatal: clone of 'file:///home/erik/git/github.com/golang/crypto.git'
>> into submodule path
>> '/home/erik/go/src/nacl/vendor/golang.org/x/crypto' failed
>> Failed to clone 'vendor/golang.org/x/crypto' a second time, aborting
>>
>>
>> The git clone --recursive file:///home/erik/git/nacl.git works fine
>> and pulls the submodule "crypto.git". Any ideas?
>>
>> - The crypto.git is a valid repo.
>> - I have the correct permissions.
>> - The crypto.git repo is a git --mirror repo.
>>
>>
>> git version: 2.11.0
>> system: linux debian/testing
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  1. Erik HallerApr 27, 2017
  2. Chris PackhamApr 28, 2017
  3. Erik HallerApr 29, 2017

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