Submodule_override in the clone stage on Drone 0.7

Drone Support
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I’m using Drone 0.7, and I want to be able to use the submodule_override option to stop the Host key verification failed. fatal: Could not read from remote repository. error you get from submodules. The API around customizing clone seems to have shifted a lot, so I’m not certain how to go about this.

I first tried the clone-outside-pipeline syntax, but this failed with
ERROR: yaml: unmarshal errors: line 1: cannot unmarshal !!strplugins…into yaml.Container:

clone:
    image: plugins/git
    recursive: true
    submodule_override:
        my_submodule: https://github.com/my/submodule

pipeline:
    build:
        image: test_image
        commands:
            - dx build_asset . -f

And I tried the clone-inside-pipeline syntax, which ran fine, but the submodule_override seemed to have no effect, and I got the Could not read from remote repository error:

pipeline:
    clone:
        image: plugins/git
        recursive: true
        submodule_override:
            my_submodule: https://github.com/my/submodule
    build:
        image: test_image
        commands:
            - dx build_asset . -f

What should I be doing?

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The clone stage should indeed be placed outside of the pipeline, per the docs:
http://docs.drone.io/cloning/

The clone section in your example (outside of the pipeline) is not using the correct hierarchy. The following change would produce a valid yaml:

clone:
-   image: plugins/git
-   recursive: true
-   submodule_override:
-       my_submodule: https://github.com/my/submodule
+   default:
+     image: plugins/git
+     recursive: true
+     submodule_override:
+         my_submodule: https://github.com/my/submodule

pipeline:
  ...
3

Thanks! Can you explain what this top-level key, underneath clone (in your case, default) indicates? Should I always use default?

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But, using the default key, as you describe above, works perfectly, thank you!

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The clone section and pipeline section are the same data structure. That is to say, the clone section can have one or many named steps. In the example I provided, default is just an arbitrary name for the step. You can rename as needed.

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