I’m working on support for a new machine, and have to change a few changes to one app, which is in a git repository with a couple of submodules. In order to make changes without having to commit them to the repository, I switched the url to the local repository:

SRC_URI += gitsm://my-local-path/myrepo;protocol=file

The issue comes with the submodules, as they are being fetched from the remote repository yet, not finding the local commit.

ERROR: myapp-git-AUTOINC+5cb44c0abb do_fetch: Fetcher failure:
Unable to find revision 90d482fd1645daa8249fe0ef94ed465f064110ab in
branch even from upstream
ERROR: myapp-git-AUTOINC+5cb44c0abb
do_fetch: gitsm: submodule download failed: FetchError Fetcher failure
for URL:
‘gitsm://git/repos/libs/lib;protocol=ssh;name=lib;subpath=lib;nobranch=1;bareclone=1;nobranch=1’.
Unable to fetch URL from any source.

As you can see, it is still using “protocol=ssh”, how can I fix this/workaround it?