Recursive clone fails with "Repository not found"

[jchv]

Clone seems to fail due to a bad URL in .gitmodules.

john@nullptr ~/Workspaces $ git clone --recursive https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_webide
Cloning into 'kaitai_struct_webide'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 5603, done.
remote: Total 5603 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 5603
Receiving objects: 100% (5603/5603), 11.38 MiB | 13.09 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4090/4090), done.
Submodule 'formats' (https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats/) registered for path 'formats'
Cloning into '/home/john/Workspaces/kaitai_struct_webide/formats'...
ERROR: Repository not found.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
fatal: clone of 'https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats/' into submodule path '/home/john/Workspaces/kaitai_struct_webide/formats' failed
Failed to clone 'formats'. Retry scheduled
Cloning into '/home/john/Workspaces/kaitai_struct_webide/formats'...
ERROR: Repository not found.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
fatal: clone of 'https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats/' into submodule path '/home/john/Workspaces/kaitai_struct_webide/formats' failed
Failed to clone 'formats' a second time, aborting

I resolved this issue by manually issuing

$ git clone https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats formats
$ git submodule update

The reason why it fails, is apparently the trailing slash. Perhaps this is a new-ish GitHub behavior?

[GreyCat]

Unable to repro, works for me:

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_webide
Cloning into 'kaitai_struct_webide'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 5603, done.
remote: Total 5603 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 5603
Receiving objects: 100% (5603/5603), 11.38 MiB | 1.89 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4090/4090), done.
Submodule 'formats' (https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats/) registered for path 'formats'
Cloning into '/home/greycat/zz/t95/kaitai_struct_webide/formats'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 3079, done.        
remote: Total 3079 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 3079        
Receiving objects: 100% (3079/3079), 744.05 KiB | 1.58 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1783/1783), done.
Submodule path 'formats': checked out '19c1fa274acd2995c9e5b81e686a0f346ffe699a'

Which git do you use?

[jchv]

Sigh. It was my .gitconfig.

[url "git@github.com:"]
        insteadOf = https://github.com/

Removing the slashes would be useful since this is not an uncommon pattern, but there's clearly nothing wrong with the .gitmodules file here, so closing.