I hit this once, and if memory serves, it went away after a "git submodule
update --init --recursive --force"

On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 at 19:21, Otto Kekäläinen via developers <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Has anyone else encountered this with the 'main' branch?
>
> ± git submodule update --init --recursive
> Submodule path 'extra/wolfssl/wolfssl': checked out
> 'b077c81eb635392e694ccedbab8b644297ec0285'
> Submodule path 'libmariadb': checked out
> 'ad30f8362402012cdeb3adaeb3a14bb55bdbbb76'
> Submodule path 'libmariadb/docs': checked out
> '7e12bcea26c8a7fe5ee77f5e5341011bb9d7e084'
> fatal: transport 'file' not allowed
> fatal: Fetched in submodule path 'storage/columnstore/columnstore',
> but it did not contain 3024f8af6f54535e7a4dfab6e34a241e1fa6f540.
> Direct fetching of that commit failed.
>
> ± git status
> Changes not staged for commit:
>   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
>   (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
>   (commit or discard the untracked or modified content in submodules)
> modified:   storage/columnstore/columnstore (new commits, modified content)
> modified:   storage/maria/libmarias3 (modified content)
> modified:   storage/rocksdb/rocksdb (modified content)
> modified:   wsrep-lib (new commits, modified content)
>
> I can't figure out where the 'file' URL to a submodule is coming from
> and with it not working I can't get submodules checked out and can't
> build.
>
>
> Only way to solve this was for me to manually check out the submodule
> commits:
>
> ± cd storage/columnstore/columnstore
> ± git checkout 3024f8af6f54535e7a4dfab6e34a241e1fa6f540
> ± cd -
> ± cd wsrep-lib
> ± git checkout 7010f0ab584ab9cdebb285272a0fb0ff0a5a791d
> ± cd -
> ± git submodule
>  b077c81eb635392e694ccedbab8b644297ec0285 extra/wolfssl/wolfssl
> (v5.8.0-stable)
>  ad30f8362402012cdeb3adaeb3a14bb55bdbbb76 libmariadb (v3.4.8-2-gad30f836)
>  3024f8af6f54535e7a4dfab6e34a241e1fa6f540
> storage/columnstore/columnstore
> (vcolumnstore-23.10.1-1-726-g3024f8af6)
>  0d5babbe46f17147ed51efd1f05a0001017a2aad storage/maria/libmarias3
> (libmarias3-3.2.0~7)
>  79f08d7ffa6d34d9ca3357777bcb335884a56cfb storage/rocksdb/rocksdb
> (v6.26.0-260-g79f08d7f)
>  7010f0ab584ab9cdebb285272a0fb0ff0a5a791d wsrep-lib
> (heads/master-78-g7010f0a)
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