[JENKINS-27606] Git submodule updates ignore url.insteadOf settings in the global config file

When the git config file has url settings such as:

[url "ssh://git@​myserver.com:7999"]

insteadOf = https://myserver.com:8443/scm

git submodule update still attempts to clone from the https url. I'm using this to try to override the remote URL for specific submodules.

Here's the error message:

Cloning into 'folder/modulename'...

fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://myserver.com:8443/scm/proj/project.git/'

Clone of 'https://myserver.com:8443/scm/proj/project.git/' into submodule path 'folder/modulename' failed

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1591)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.access$500(CliGitAPIImpl.java:86)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$6.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:893)

at hudson.plugins.git.extensions.impl.SubmoduleOption.onCheckoutCompleted(SubmoduleOption.java:83)

at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1047)

at hudson.scm.SCM.checkout(SCM.java:484)

at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1270)

at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:609)

at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86)

at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:531)

at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1751)

at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)

at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:89)

at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:240)

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Originally reported by chadkillingsworth, imported from: Git submodule updates ignore url.insteadOf settings in the global config file

• status: Open
  
• priority: Minor
  
• component(s): git-client-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 0
  
• watchers: 1
  
• imported: 20251211-071809
  

Raw content of original issue

When the git config file has url settings such as:


[url "ssh://git@myserver.com:7999"]

	insteadOf = https://myserver.com:8443/scm


git submodule update still attempts to clone from the https url. I'm using this to try to override the remote URL for specific submodules.


Here's the error message:


Cloning into 'folder/modulename'...

fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://myserver.com:8443/scm/proj/project.git/'

Clone of 'https://myserver.com:8443/scm/proj/project.git/' into submodule path 'folder/modulename' failed


	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1591)

	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.access$500(CliGitAPIImpl.java:86)

	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$6.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:893)

	at hudson.plugins.git.extensions.impl.SubmoduleOption.onCheckoutCompleted(SubmoduleOption.java:83)

	at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1047)

	at hudson.scm.SCM.checkout(SCM.java:484)

	at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1270)

	at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:609)

	at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86)

	at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:531)

	at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1751)

	at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)

	at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:89)

	at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:240)

environment

```
Jenkins: 1.605 on Windows

git-client-plugin: 1.16.1
```