Getting the following error for a submodule when using git/ssh: $ git clone --recursive ssh://incense:/home/erik/git/nacl.git Cloning into 'nacl'... remote: Counting objects: 32, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (25/25), done. remote: Total 32 (delta 5), reused 0 (delta 0) Receiving objects: 100% (32/32), 16.50 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (5/5), done. Submodule 'vendor/golang.org/x/crypto' (file:///home/erik/git/github.com/golang/crypto.git) registered for path 'vendor/golang.org/x/crypto' Cloning into '/home/erik/go/src/nacl/vendor/golang.org/x/crypto'... fatal: '/home/erik/git/github.com/golang/crypto.git' does not appear to be a git repository fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. fatal: clone of 'file:///home/erik/git/github.com/golang/crypto.git' into submodule path '/home/erik/go/src/nacl/vendor/golang.org/x/crypto' failed Failed to clone 'vendor/golang.org/x/crypto'. Retry scheduled Cloning into '/home/erik/go/src/nacl/vendor/golang.org/x/crypto'... fatal: '/home/erik/git/github.com/golang/crypto.git' does not appear to be a git repository fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. fatal: clone of 'file:///home/erik/git/github.com/golang/crypto.git' into submodule path '/home/erik/go/src/nacl/vendor/golang.org/x/crypto' failed Failed to clone 'vendor/golang.org/x/crypto' a second time, aborting The git clone --recursive file:///home/erik/git/nacl.git works fine and pulls the submodule "crypto.git". Any ideas? - The crypto.git is a valid repo. - I have the correct permissions. - The crypto.git repo is a git --mirror repo. git version: 2.11.0 system: linux debian/testing