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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Submodule from relative URL","articleBody":"Git submodules allow relative URLs which are based on the parent repo URL.\r\n\r\nRight now this is not supported, ie. adding a submodule configuration in `.gitmodules` with a relative URL will fail when cloning in the `add` or `update` `Submodule`.\r\n\r\nA sample stack trace when calling `submodule.update(init=True)`:\r\n\r\n```\r\nGitCommandError\r\nCmd('git') failed due to: exit code(128)\r\n  cmdline: git clone -n --separate-git-dir=/opt/parent_project/.git/modules/submodule_project -v ../../my-company/submodule-project.git /opt/parent_project/submodule_project\r\n  stderr: 'fatal: repository '../../my-company/submodule-project.git' does not exist\r\n'\r\ngit/cmd.py in wait at line 291\r\ngit/util.py in finalize_process at line 341\r\ngit/repo/base.py in _clone at line 880\r\ngit/repo/base.py in clone_from at line 925\r\ngit/objects/submodule/base.py in _clone_repo at line 261\r\ngit/objects/submodule/base.py in update at line 524\r\n```\r\n\r\nGitPython==2.1.1\r\nStill present in the current revision 8f76463221cf1c69046b27c07afde4f0442b75d5","author":{"url":"https://github.com/sp-ricard-valverde","@type":"Person","name":"sp-ricard-valverde"},"datePublished":"2018-02-27T12:13:16.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/730/GitPython/issues/730"}