Fatal Error when updating submodule using GIT

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Devin Dixon picture Devin Dixon · Nov 19, 2011 · Viewed 60.3k times · Source

I am trying to update the submodules of this git repositary but I keep getting a fatal errors:

[root@iptlock ProdigyView]# git submodule update --recursive
Cloning into core...
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Clone of '[email protected]:ProdigyView/ProdigyView-Core.git' into submodule path 'core' failed

Or this way

[root@iptlock root]# git clone --recursive https://github.com/ProdigyView/ProdigyView.git
Cloning into ProdigyView...
remote: Counting objects: 438, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (275/275), done.
remote: Total 438 (delta 172), reused 394 (delta 128)
Receiving objects: 100% (438/438), 8.03 MiB | 5.19 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (172/172), done.
Submodule 'core' ([email protected]:ProdigyView/ProdigyView-Core.git) registered for path 'core'
Cloning into core...
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Clone of '[email protected]:ProdigyView/ProdigyView-Core.git' into submodule path 'core' failed

Any ideas of why this is happening withthe submodule? The repo is this one:

https://github.com/ProdigyView/ProdigyView

(The submodule is able to be cloned if I do not try to clone it as a submodule.)

Answer

Daniël W. Crompton picture Daniël W. Crompton · Feb 11, 2013

The issue is that git can't find the public key needed to download the repo from your server, the solution is to use the public url.

In the file .gitmodule you will find the following entry:

[submodule "example"]
    path = example
    url = [email protected]:webhat/example.git

The URL need to be changed to the public URL for the module:

[submodule "example"]
    path = example
    url = https://github.com/webhat/example.git

As you can see the prefix git@ has been changed to https:// and the infix : becomes /

EDIT: In your own repository you might need to use git:// rather than https://

The previous answer was unclear to me, so I added this.

EDIT 2: If you find you need to run git submodule sync or need to edit .git/config to get this to work, you have likely set up remotes for the submodules.

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