Submodule confusion

[evanepio]

Don't think submodules are the correct solution. When trying to get a clone of a fork working for development:

Evans-MacBook-Pro:peidevs.github.io evanporter$ git submodule init
Evans-MacBook-Pro:peidevs.github.io evanporter$ git submodule update
Cloning into '/Users/evanporter/projects/peidevs.github.io/themes/mainroad'...
Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '192.30.253.112' to the list of known hosts.
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
fatal: clone of 'git@github.com:swhalley/Mainroad.git' into submodule path '/Users/evanporter/projects/peidevs.github.io/themes/mainroad' failed
Failed to clone 'themes/mainroad'. Retry scheduled
Cloning into '/Users/evanporter/projects/peidevs.github.io/themes/mainroad'...
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
fatal: clone of 'git@github.com:swhalley/Mainroad.git' into submodule path '/Users/evanporter/projects/peidevs.github.io/themes/mainroad' failed
Failed to clone 'themes/mainroad' a second time, aborting

I think the key piece of info is fatal: clone of 'git@github.com:swhalley/Mainroad.git' into submodule path .... The submodule is pointing to user swhalley's repo and appears to think I need write access to it.

Will need to think about what could achieve the same goal as git's seemingly brittle submodule system.

[evanepio]

Figured it out. We're currently using the git@github.com style URL. This uses SSH and thus needs to be authenticated and have permission to the repo. We need to use the public style URL with HTTPS.

Answered here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8197089/fatal-error-when-updating-submodule-using-git