Hi Aravind thanks for the reply. I followed your instructions on my local
machine on git 2.15.0. Following were my findings.

1.
> git clone git://the-url some-dir
> cd some-dir
> git submodule update


clones the repository but *git submodule update* doesn't update the
submodule or output any content to console or return an error value.

2.
> git clone git://the-url some-dir
> cd some-dir
> git submodule update --init


clones the repository and *git submodule update --init* successfully clones
the submodule and outputs the following:

Submodule 'submodule' (https://gitrepourl.git) registered for path '
> submodule'
> Cloning into repopath/submodule'...
> Submodule path 'submodule': checked out '<commit id>'


Reading the git documentation for submodules
<https://git-scm.com/docs/git-submodule> it seems that --init flag resolves
the url for the submodule and adds an entry to it to the .git/config file
in the repository and then  .
Immediately after cloning a repository if i manually add the submodule
entry to .git/config file git submodule update works.

Should GoCD be running git submodule update --init instead of git submodule
update when cloning a repository?

Thanks again.


On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 4:07 AM, Aravind SV <[email protected]> wrote:

> Submodules should work. What happens if you do this locally:
>
> git clone git://the-url some-dir
> cd some-dir
> git submodule update
>
> Cheers,
> Aravind
>
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 04:52:10 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a git repository with a single git submodule which goCD is not
> able
> > to clone. It gives the following error:
> >
> > pr|10:07:42.582 [GIT] Fetching changes
> > > pr|10:07:42.886 [GIT] Performing git gc
> > > pr|10:07:42.991 [GIT] Reset working directory pipelines/odoc-patient
> > > pr|10:07:42.991 [GIT] Cleaning all unversioned files in working copy
> > > pr|10:07:42.996 [GIT] Cleaning submodule configurations in .git/config
> > > pr|10:07:42.997 [GIT] Updating working copy to revision
> > > 7a54bc8dd6afa272d8c1dc793a4a7f871a500afa
> > > pr|10:07:43.016 HEAD is now at 7a54bc8 Commit name
> > > pr|10:07:43.016 [GIT] Removing modified files in submodules
> > > pr|10:07:43.030 [GIT] Updating git sub-modules
> > > &2|10:08:10.887 Error performing command: --- Command ---
> > > &2|10:08:10.887 git submodule update
> > > &2|10:08:10.887 --- Environment ---
> > > &2|10:08:10.887 {}
> > > &2|10:08:10.887 --- INPUT ----
> > > &2|10:08:10.887
> > > &2|10:08:10.887
> > > &2|10:08:10.887 --OUTPUT ---
> > > &2|10:08:10.887
> > > &2|10:08:10.887 --- ERROR ---
> > > &2|10:08:10.887 STDERR: Cloning into 'submodulename'...
> > > &2|10:08:10.887 STDERR: fatal: reference is not a tree:
> > > b79aacd45e81fadbb5a4f13009bd13f6a47d9958
> > > &2|10:08:10.887 STDERR: Unable to checkout
> > > 'b79aacd45e81fadbb5a4f13009bd13f6a47d9958' in submodule path
> 'submodulename'
> > > &2|10:08:10.887 ---
> > > &2|10:08:10.887
> > > ex|10:08:10.896 [go] Job completed odoc-patient/1/debugApk/1/defaultJob
> on
> > > ip [/home/ubuntu/soft/go-agent-17.10.0]
> >
> >
> >  Is this a known issue or is there any workaround for submodules in goCD?
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
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