Error on git submodule update --init

Anna Völkl

I have a main repository with several git submodules.

Lately I came about a new error which I cannot resolve:

fatal: Could not switch to '~/git': No such file or directory
Clone of '~/git/MyModule_A.git' into submodule path '.modman/MyModule_A' failed

What I'm doing

First, I clone the main repo as usual: git clone /path/to/the/bare/repo.git src

Then, I run git submodule update --init which does correctly register all submodules and they are added to the .git/config.

Submodule '.modman/MyModule_A' (~/git/MyModule_A.git) registered for path '.modman/MyModule_A'
Submodule '.modman/MyModule_B' (~/git/MyModule_B.git) registered for path '.modman/MyModule_B'
Submodule '.modman/MyModule_C' (~/git/MyModule_C.git) registered for path '.modman/MyModule_C'
fatal: Could not switch to '~/git': No such file or directory
Clone of '~/git/MyModule_A.git' into submodule path '.modman/MyModule_A' failed

What I have tried so far

Removing MyModule_A submodule from the .gitmodules but then the error continues in MyModule_B, MyModule_B and so on.
Manually cloning ~/git/MyModule_A.git into another folder outside the repo which is working fine.
Checking file permissions which seem to be correct.
Checking entries in .gitmodules for wrong paths, urls or any syntax problems which is not the case.

BartBog

The problem is the ~ in your submodule. Git does not know that this stands for /home/<yourusername>

If you replace it (in .gitmodules) by the absolute path, everything will work.

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edited at2020-10-23

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