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.pack...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Erik, > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Erik Haller <erik.hal...@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
