Question

I am trying to clone a submodule for my drupal installation. I run the following command:

git submodule add http://git.drupal.org/project/token.git /sites/all/modules/token

This throws this error:

The following path is ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
/sites/all/modules/token
Use -f if you really want to add it.

But my .gitignore file is empty.

So I tried to run it as suggested:

submodule add -f http://git.drupal.org/project/token.git /sites/all/modules/token

But this throws this error:

fatal: could not create leading directories of '/sites/all/modules/token': Permission denied
Clone of 'http://git.drupal.org/project/token.git' into submodule path '/sites/all/modules/token' failed

Permissions are 777.

Ideas?

Regards
Lukas

Answer 1

Just found the answer:

git submodule add http://git.drupal.org/project/token.git sites/all/modules/token

The leading “/” was the problem.