clone with inaccessible submodule fails the clone process (cartodb-private)

I am running into problems while trying out the latest master branch due to the cartodb-private submodule’s inclusion.

It breaks cloning the repository and is breaking some of our CI pipelines… could someone please enlighten me as to the purpose of having a private submodule in an open source and public repository? With an open source project you shouldn’t include completely private submodules as dependencies it defeats its purpose.

[Oreilles]

In case anyone stumble into this, here’s the solution:

git clone https://github.com/cartodb/cartodb.git
cd cartodb
git rm private
git submodule update --init --recursive

[Stivens73]

@sabman, you can also run it with -n flag for a shallow copy.

upd: okay, this might not be a good solution, -n as shallow copy will basically create an empty dir