Submodules in CI/CD not accessible

GitLab CI/CD
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Gilab CI/CD is not checking out my submodules, even though I’m using relative paths

I have 2 projects in a group named ‘delete’.
The group/project hierarchy is:

--- delete/a
--- delete/b
` ``

I do

git clone git@gitlab.com/ccrome/delete/a
cd a
mkdir lib
git submodule add …/b lib/b
git commit & push.


my .gitmodules looks like:

[submodule “lib/b”]
path = lib/b
url = …/b.git


and my .gitlab-ci.yml is

stages:

  • build

build:
image: alpine:3.17.2
stage: build
variables:
GIT_SUBMODULE_STRATEGY: recursive
script:
- ls -l


My understanding is that the relative module address should make the recursive clone just work.  However, I get this:

Submodule ‘lib/b’ (https://gitlab-ci-token:[MASKED]@gitlab.com/signal-essence/delete/b.git) registered for path ‘lib/b’
Synchronizing submodule url for ‘lib/b’
Cloning into ‘/builds/signal-essence/delete/a/lib/b’…
remote: The project you were looking for could not be found or you don’t have permission to view it.
fatal: repository ‘https://gitlab.com/signal-essence/delete/b.git/’ not found

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Duplicating my own respond from another post: here was my solution:

Sorry if this has already been answered. I found my solution: say you’ve got a private group G with projects P1 and P2. P1 includes submodule …/P2.

Toy need to go into the P2 projects settings, under CI/CD settings (NOT PERMISSIONS ! Which is what threw me). Under the CICD settings, you go to something like “pipeline tokens” or something. I have no power now and 0.2 mbits/sec on my phone, so can’t easily check exactly.

But under P2->settings->CI/CD->pipeline token, add the group GitLab.COM/myname/G/P1. This gives the P1 pipeline access to clone the P2 project.

This must be a new feature

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Hi,

I got the same issues and tried to add the access in the P2 project parameter, in Settings → CI/CD → Token Access → Allow access to this project with a CI_JOB_TOKEN

However , I always got this error when I try to add a project :

The target_project that you are attempting to access does not exist or you don’t have permission to perform this action

I tried with absolute and relative paths, and different accounts (owner or maintainer). In the end, my only possibility was to disable the Allow access to this project with a CI_JOB_TOKEN parameter.

Did someone face the same issue ?