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Asked: 2026-06-10T01:50:51+00:00

I am attempting to add a few submodules to my .vim/bundles directory, and when

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I am attempting to add a few submodules to my .vim/bundles directory, and when I attempt to add this particular repo Git gives me a strange error I’ve never seen before:

$ git submodule add -f git://github.com/derekwyatt/vim-scala.git .vim/bundle/vim-scala
fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born
Unable to checkout submodule '.vim/bundle/vim-scala'

Any idea what can cause this?

If I clone the same repo to a test directory (not through the submodule command), it works fine, and creates the expected files.

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  1. Editorial Team

    To fix that error, you should delete the folder with the same path to the submodule inside .git/modules/ directory. This error can occurs when url was incorrect for submodule for the first-time when submodule was added.

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