Woodpecker can't pull my Pages branch in a submodule #2214

clayote commented 2025年11月17日 07:06:43 +01:00

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I'm hosting the documentation for Lisien in the pages branch of that repository, which is also registered as the docs submodule, so that sphinx has somewhere to output to.

I'm setting up my very first Woodpecker pipeline for Lisien. It seems to clone the repository correctly, at first. Then it tries to update the submodules, but it can't update docs because it lacks... exactly the same host key that the main branch has, I'd think? It'd be weird for one repository to have two host keys, right?

+ git init --object-format sha1 -b main
Initialized empty Git repository in /woodpecker/src/codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien/.git/
+ git config --global --replace-all safe.directory /woodpecker/src/codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien
+ git remote add origin https://codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien.git
+ git fetch --no-tags --depth=1 --filter=tree:0 origin +583046b0e77fdbe48b3273cce4cda87d6c8f24bf:
From https://codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien
 * branch 583046b0e77fdbe48b3273cce4cda87d6c8f24bf -> FETCH_HEAD
+ git reset --hard -q 583046b0e77fdbe48b3273cce4cda87d6c8f24bf
+ git submodule update --init --recursive --depth=1 --recommend-shallow
Submodule 'docs' (git@codeberg.org:clayote/Lisien.git) registered for path 'docs'
Cloning into '/woodpecker/src/codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien/docs'...
Host key verification failed.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
fatal: clone of 'git@codeberg.org:clayote/Lisien.git' into submodule path '/woodpecker/src/codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien/docs' failed
Failed to clone 'docs'. Retry scheduled
Cloning into '/woodpecker/src/codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien/docs'...
Host key verification failed.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
fatal: clone of 'git@codeberg.org:clayote/Lisien.git' into submodule path '/woodpecker/src/codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien/docs' failed
Failed to clone 'docs' a second time, aborting
exit status 1

### Comment I'm hosting the documentation for [Lisien](https://codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien) in the `pages` branch of that repository, which is also registered as the `docs` submodule, so that `sphinx` has somewhere to output to. I'm setting up my very first Woodpecker pipeline for Lisien. It seems to clone the repository correctly, at first. Then it tries to update the submodules, but it can't update `docs` because it lacks... exactly the same host key that the main branch has, I'd think? It'd be weird for one repository to have two host keys, right? ``` + git init --object-format sha1 -b main Initialized empty Git repository in /woodpecker/src/codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien/.git/ + git config --global --replace-all safe.directory /woodpecker/src/codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien + git remote add origin https://codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien.git + git fetch --no-tags --depth=1 --filter=tree:0 origin +583046b0e77fdbe48b3273cce4cda87d6c8f24bf: From https://codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien * branch 583046b0e77fdbe48b3273cce4cda87d6c8f24bf -> FETCH_HEAD + git reset --hard -q 583046b0e77fdbe48b3273cce4cda87d6c8f24bf + git submodule update --init --recursive --depth=1 --recommend-shallow Submodule 'docs' (git@codeberg.org:clayote/Lisien.git) registered for path 'docs' Cloning into '/woodpecker/src/codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien/docs'... Host key verification failed. fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. fatal: clone of 'git@codeberg.org:clayote/Lisien.git' into submodule path '/woodpecker/src/codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien/docs' failed Failed to clone 'docs'. Retry scheduled Cloning into '/woodpecker/src/codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien/docs'... Host key verification failed. fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. fatal: clone of 'git@codeberg.org:clayote/Lisien.git' into submodule path '/woodpecker/src/codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien/docs' failed Failed to clone 'docs' a second time, aborting exit status 1 ```

Gusted commented 2025年11月17日 14:29:46 +01:00

@clayote wrote in #2214 (comment):

I'm setting up my very first Woodpecker pipeline for Lisien. It seems to clone the repository correctly, at first. Then it tries to update the submodules, but it can't update docs because it lacks... exactly the same host key that the main branch has, I'd think? It'd be weird for one repository to have two host keys, right?

The error from git is misleading, it's trying to do SSH but I don't think any SSH key is configured. I would suggest that https://codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien/src/branch/main/.gitmodules#L3 uses a HTTPS link instead.

@clayote wrote in https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/2214#issue-2677226: > I'm setting up my very first Woodpecker pipeline for Lisien. It seems to clone the repository correctly, at first. Then it tries to update the submodules, but it can't update `docs` because it lacks... exactly the same host key that the main branch has, I'd think? It'd be weird for one repository to have two host keys, right? The error from git is misleading, it's trying to do SSH but I don't think any SSH key is configured. I would suggest that https://codeberg.org/clayote/Lisien/src/branch/main/.gitmodules#L3 uses a HTTPS link instead.

clayote commented 2025年11月17日 15:09:01 +01:00

Thanks, that worked.

Is this documented anywhere in Codeberg's help files? I'm not sure where it should go...

Thanks, that worked. Is this documented anywhere in Codeberg's help files? I'm not sure where it should go...

Gusted commented 2025年11月17日 15:10:01 +01:00

I'm not sure if this is a Codeberg problem or a Woodpecker limitation, but in general having SSH URLs for submodules is quite uncommon.

I'm not sure if this is a Codeberg problem or a Woodpecker limitation, but in general having SSH URLs for submodules is quite uncommon.