# Newbie question about submodules and git clone.

1 messages from 2008-05-03 to 2008-05-03. Participants: max roth.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13362

## max roth, 2008-05-03 02:00

Subject: Newbie question about submodules and git clone.
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URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/C7698B88-6ECF-43BE-BE97-82B69AC138CA%40gmail.com

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I have a small personal project that I want to use submodules for.   
For each of the
submodules, I set up a git repository and then used git submodule add
to add them to the super project.  When I try to clone the super
project I get this error

/git_repositories/biatch/.git/refs/remotes/origin: No such file or
directory
Warning: Remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

What does this mean? Everything is on my laptop so I don't know if
it is trying to go to a URL or something. I'm a newbie and documentation
about this is sparse. Thanks.

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