This is my first time using a submodule in a GitLab CI/CD pipeline. And, so far, I’m failing.
I’ve read Using Git submodules with GitLab CI/CD | GitLab and think I’ve set it up correctly. I think maybe using CI_JOB_TOKEN to clone the submodule is the fix, but I’m having no luck finding the documentation on how to use the CI_JOB_TOKEN to clone a submodule. … But maybe I’m doing something else wrong?
Here’s the CI/CD log.
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update
Cloning into '/builds/project-b/project-a'...
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://my-server.com': No such device or address
fatal: clone of 'https://my-server.com/project-a.git' into submodule '/builds/project-b/project-a' failed
Failed to clone 'project-a'. Retry scheduled
Cloning into '/builds/project-b/project-a'...
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://my-server.com': No such device or address
fatal: clone of 'https://my-server.com/project-a.git' into submodule '/builds/project-b/project-a' failed
Failed to clone 'project-a' second time, aborting
Cleaning up project directory and file based variables
ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1
GitLab is self hosted on an LAN server using HTTPS.
https://my-server.com
My projects are next to each other in GitLab, under my-group for common access privileges.
my-group
project-a
project-b
The project-a has a python script I want to use in project-b.
project-a/
stuff.py
The project-b has project-a as a submodule.
project-b/
.gitlab-ci.yml
.gitmodules
project-a
The project-b CI/CD does more but I’ve only included the submodule part here. My .gitlab-ci.yml…
stages:
- build
do-build
stage: build
script:
- git submodule init
- git submodule update
My .gitmodules…
[submodule “project-b”]
path = project-b
url = ../project-b.git
Example users: bob is a developer; ci-robot is just so we can get an access token not belonging to a human. Users in my-group…
- bob with developer privileges for project-a and project-b
- ci-robot with developer privileges like bob but also with an access token
In the past, I got stuff.py with wget and ci-robot’s token. This worked but I want to use a submodule. Just for reference…
script:
- "wget -O stuff --header='PRIVATE-TOKEN: xhSijU78blahBlahBlah' --no-check-certificate 'https://my-server.com/api/v4/projects/23/repository/files/stuff.py/raw?ref=master'"
