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submodule update fails on submodule with relative path

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git, python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reproducing submodule update against a submodule using a relative path, then trace the pygit2/libgit2 submodule update path. Done means relative-path submodules can be checked out successfully without the 404 failure, with coverage for the reproduced case.

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Description

Ill get an "submodule update: request failed with status code: 404" an any submodule with relative path,

is there an way to work around that atm ?
does someone has managed to checkout submodules with relative paths ?

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