Git pull --recurse-submodules command error - Help!

[lawrence]

$ git pull --recurse-submodules
Fetching submodule themes/
Could not access submodule ‘assets/vendor/bootstrap’
Errors during submodule fetch:
themes/

Could anyone please tell me why this error and how to fix it?

[fool]

Hi Lawrence,

Not sure how you’d run that - we don’t have git permissions during build. This post has more details:

[Support Guide] How do I access private repositories in the build environment?

Last reviewed by Netlify Support on December 2022 The link from your repository to our service only authenticates us against the “main” repo that you first configured, and won’t automatically allow access to submodules even if they also belong to you and you’ve granted Netlify access to those repositories. In case your submodule is public, you can change the URI schema for it to start with https://, and it should work without further adjustment (so, in .gitmodules, change git@github.com… to h…

…Or are you seeing that locally? If so that is a bit beyond what our staff can maybe help you with beyond this guide to using submodules: Working with submodules - The GitHub Blog

Let me know a bit more detail and I’ll try to get you a better answer if I can! If you’re seeing it during a build, though, that first article is “how to handle that situation” though you do need to also configure the submodules correct (as demonstrated in the second article) - but you might link us to your build logs to analyze in place as well if it is during a build and you think you have everything configured correctly.