"git submodule update" first tries a regular "git fetch" to fetch the commit, but when that doesn't retrieve the commit it wants, it tries "git fetch <remote> <commit>". For <remote>, it used the wrong default remote: the default remote of the outer repository, rather than the default remote of the submodule. Signed-off-by: Mara Bos <mara@xxxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/submodule--helper.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c index 4c173d8b37..50b96e0b9d 100644 --- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c +++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c @@ -2225,7 +2225,10 @@ static int fetch_in_submodule(const char *module_path, int depth, int quiet, strvec_pushf(&cp.args, "--depth=%d", depth); if (oid) { char *hex = oid_to_hex(oid); - char *remote = get_default_remote(); + char *remote; + int code = get_default_remote_submodule(module_path, &remote); + if (code) + return code; strvec_pushl(&cp.args, remote, hex, NULL); free(remote); -- 2.39.0