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Git submodules on Bitbucket pipelines over https

Javier Fernández Pastrana

Hi,

As we well known, the support of Git over https is ended and we are facing problems in our Bitbucket pipeline.

We have configured three submodules in our main repository and we have configured these submodules over https because we cannot use ssh (as in many companies happens). Locally is fine, because we have configure the APP Pasword, and works well.

However, I do not find a way to configure the same on the pipeline, it returns the following error:

CURRENTLY:

The configuration that I have is:

BEFORE:

What we had before, and it is not longer working is:

It was a workaround, to reconfigure the submodule to use Git over ssh.

For that solution also we had configured ssh keys between repositories to make them accesible.

I have tried many different approaches without success.... any suggestion?

Best regards,

Javier

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Javier Fernández Pastrana

Extra information:

I have also tried the following approach How to use git submodule init property? without success:

Theodora Boudale

Hi Javier,

I haven't been able to reproduce this error when using the configuration you mentioned in your answer.

Are you using a public Docker image as a build environment for your builds?
If so, could you please let me know which Docker image you are using for this step?

I would like to try and reproduce this with the Docker image you are using, to see if the issue may be specific to the image or the git version installed in the image.

Kind regards,
Theodora

Javier Fernández Pastrana

Hi @Theodora Boudale ,

I am using "ubuntu:hirsute" public image and the installed git version is 2.30.2.

Also I would like to add that I am using private and public repositories in the submodules. Two of them are private, from Bitbucket too and the other is public from Github.

I do not have any preference at all with the Docker image, could you tell me which one are you using? and I will try.

Thank you very much for the support,

Javier

Theodora Boudale

Hi @Javier Fernández Pastrana,

Thank you for the info. It doesn't look that the Docker image is the problem here, I have no issues updating the submodules when I use the Docker image you mentioned.

I have been able to reproduce this error though when the name used for the submodule in the following command (the my-submodule part)

git config submodule.my-submodule.url https://${BB_username}:${BB_password}@bitbucket.org/<workspace-id>/<repo>.git

does not match the name defined in the .gitmodules file of the repo. In this case, the url of the submodule is not changed, and the git submodule update command is using the url defined in .gitmodules (which doesn't include a username and app password)

Does the submodule repo perhaps have any capital letters in its name?
If you open the .gitmodules file for the repo, do the submodule name and path have any capital letters or are they lowercase?
In the git config command you are using in your yml file, does the my-submodule part include any capital letters?

Kind regards,
Theodora

Javier Fernández Pastrana

Hi @Theodora Boudale ,

First of all, thank you very much for your effort.

Secondly, in git submodules is not specified the username and password, you can find it below:

Therefore, it has sense the first error when we run "git submodule update --init --recursive" that could not read Username because it is not specified....

Meanwhile, the second option that I tried I think that it should work.

Regarding your questions, I always use lower case for all the repositories. Other thing that may is important is the following:

Main repository - belongs to PROJECT A

Git submodule 1 - Belongs to project B
Git submodule 2 - Belongs to project B
Git submodule 3 - Belongs to Github

I was doing some more test using my user and password instead of the the APP Paswords, but without sucess, I share the outputs of .git/config

FIRST "cat .git/config"

SECOND "cat .git/config"

And it returns the same error.....

thank you very much,

Javier

Luis Plaza

Hi @Javier Fernández Pastrana

the use of Bitbucket downloads to centralize dependencies instead of git modules can be another option that your team should take into account.


https://bitbucket.org/<workspace>/<repo>/downloads/tab=branches

You may store them using a pipe in the module repo and download and decompress of the artifact in the step script of the dependent repo.

Git submodules may look to make your life easier like symlinks but it is not recommended.

Kind regards,

Luis Plaza

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