Hi everyone! I’m wondering if it is possible to have my hugo theme as a private submodule with https. From what I understand, this is not possible. so to work around I thought that I can simply set a git config to use ssh instead of https just for netlify. So I added it to my netlify.toml. The co…

I figured out, that the submodule was only cached after switching back to https. the only way for private submodules is ssh. I therefore am switching to render.com . cya!

Hi @berot3 You might find the following support guide helpful [image] [Support Guide] Why isn’t my Hugo theme working correctly with Netlify? Support Guides Last reviewed by Netlify Support: September 2023 We get this question often. Luckily, there is both a common root…

Thanks a lot for the quick reply. Got it. So I can not set git-configs for deploys? So there is no way around using ssh for submodules. I think you should maybe think about it once more. SSH for submodules is nice to have, but everyone is using https. And looking at the competition like render, t…

Maybe one solution would be to use relative paths? Than Netlify could use ssh and everywhere else I could use https… I just tried it and netlify is reading the path wrong: Netlify App Start building the best web experiences in record time 6:07:15 PM: Build …

So I went again through the setup and it finally works now! Maybe this here also helped: [Support Guide] How do I access private repositories in the build environment? The only „feature request“ that I would make, is add support for relative submodule-paths. What do you think @coelmay ? (Where I c…

Sorry to hear that you got stuck on this, but I appreciate you coming back and updating the thread during your debugging process!

Thank you too for your works here. I really loved working with Netlify. I will definitely check back again to see if you support private https submodules :slight_smile: :+1:

Git config for private submodule

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coelmay November 28, 2021, 10:52pm 2

Hi @berot3

You might find the following support guide helpful

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Git config for private submodule

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