git submodule on github codespaces

Question

I have problem with submodule on github codespace.

When i use command

git submodule update --init

terminal show me

Warning: Permanently added 'github.com,xxxxx' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
 [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
 fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
 
 Please make sure you have the correct access rights
 and the repository exists.

• torek: Do you have access rights to that repository? Does it exist?
• Sydalmighty: this is crazy I'm struggling with the same thing. I found this on the web, I'm trying it out now: github.community/t/how-to-checkout-recursively/136734
• prumand: sse: stackoverflow.com/questions/6031494/…

Answer 1

Github Codespace manages what they call a Developer Container, which provides a fully featured development environment. Whenever you work in a codespace, you are using a dev container on a virtual machine.

As from documentation:

By default, your codespace is assigned a token scoped with read permission or read and write permission to the repository from which it was created

If your project needs additional permissions for other repositories, you can configure this in the devcontainer.json file, as described in "Setting additional repository permissions"

To set all permissions for a given repository, use "permissions": "read-all" or "permissions": "write-all" in the repository object (the .devcontainer.json file):

// .devcontainer.json
{
 "customizations": {
 "codespaces": {
 "repositories": {
 "my_org/my_repo": {
 "permissions": "write-all"
 }
 }
 }
 }
}

So, through the .devcontainer file one can setup a specific repository dev container to have the required authorization to pull and push it's project submodules repositories!