Checkout: Submodule initialization with private sumodule fails

[leoheck]

Hi, I am testing v2. My goal is to initialize submodules behind a private repo with the whole history.

I am not sure if I am doing this right, but I am doing this.

    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      with:
        token: ${{ secrets.CI_PAT }}
        submodules: 'true'
        fetch-depth: 0

And receiving this output.

Run actions/checkout@v2
/usr/bin/docker exec  cf6073467e49ed136c89b40c65140167d4da6b133a966b11d7b7277f30c084cb sh -c "cat /etc/*release | grep ^ID"
Syncing repository: my_company/my_repo
Getting Git version info
Deleting the contents of '/__w/my_repo/my_repo'
Initializing the repository
Disabling automatic garbage collection
Setting up auth
Fetching the repository
  /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --prune --progress --no-recurse-submodules origin +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/* +eebee8254a6b64f5edb7510c9a2fbdebe78873bb:refs/remotes/pull/156/merge
  remote: Repository not found.
  ##[error]fatal: repository 'https://github.com/my_company/my_repo/' not found
  The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128
  Waiting 20 seconds before trying again
  /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --prune --progress --no-recurse-submodules origin +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/* +eebee8254a6b64f5edb7510c9a2fbdebe78873bb:refs/remotes/pull/156/merge
  remote: Repository not found.
  ##[error]fatal: repository 'https://github.com/my_company/my_repo/' not found
  The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128
  Waiting 11 seconds before trying again

The repo and the company name was renamed here, but they are good
The browser opens the (right) URL.

[leoheck]

Testing this on my computer, same output

➜ /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --prune --progress --no-recurse-submodules origin +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/* +20816e26ca5ed9fb1e1da7ea96b2ae70d18824ad:refs/remotes/pull/156/merge      

Them removing this ...

+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/* 

With this command, I was able to execute it with success

➜ /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --prune --progress --no-recurse-submodules origin +20816e26ca5ed9fb1e1da7ea96b2ae70d18824ad:refs/remotes/pull/156/merge      

So, does this is something I am doing wrong? If not, how to work around it while I can't see any fix?

[leoheck]

Same issue here, https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/254 but it was closed.

[ahmadnassri]

same issue here, tried the following from other similar issues:

• https vs. git urls
• using a PAT, confirmed has access to repo

Log

Fetching the repository /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --no-tags --prune --progress --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 origin +2471ca0a3f4e0ae04bb566a9e0aba7bd9def5847:refs/remotes/pull/7/merge ##[error]fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128 Waiting 11 seconds before trying again /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --no-tags --prune --progress --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 origin +2471ca0a3f4e0ae04bb566a9e0aba7bd9def5847:refs/remotes/pull/7/merge ##[error]fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128 Waiting 12 seconds before trying again /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --no-tags --prune --progress --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 origin +2471ca0a3f4e0ae04bb566a9e0aba7bd9def5847:refs/remotes/pull/7/merge ##[error]fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled ##[error]The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128

[ahmadnassri]

according to the docs for submodules flag:

# When the `ssh-key` input is not provided, SSH URLs beginning with
# `[email protected]:` are converted to HTTPS.

so i'm gonna attempt that next, however, adding an SSH key for this seems overkill

[leoheck]

Someone told that V2 does not implement submodule but this info is not on README. So it will be nice to put it there if it is right.

[davivcgarcia]

Is works for me with:

    steps:
    - name: Git Checkout
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
      with:
        submodules: true

[leoheck]

Yeap, I tested this yesterday as well and it is working now. My issue is that my submodule is private.

But this is working as well now.

    - name: Checkout with submodules
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
      with:
        submodules: 'true'
        token: ${{secrets.CI_PAT}}