Remove libsodium and lowdown submodules to fix recursive clone
What the developer wrote
Authored by Erick Cestari
Remove libsodium and lowdown submodules to fix recursive clone
These submodules were causing failures during recursive git clone
operations. The submodule entries were still registered in the git
tree even though they were removed from .gitmodules, causing:
"fatal: No url found for submodule path 'external/lightning/external/libsodium'"
and similar errors for lowdown.
This removes both submodule references from the git index to resolve
recursive submodule initialization failures (exit code 128).
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What changed, and why it matters
This commit removes two leftover git submodule references (libsodium and lowdown) from the repository index. The submodules had already been removed from the project's configuration file, but their entries were still stuck in git's internal records, causing 'recursive clone' operations to fail with an error. The change only fixes a source-code checkout/build problem and does not alter any running code, cryptography, or network behavior.
No security action required. Treat as a normal build/clone hygiene fix.
Security signals we found
No strong security signals were identified.
Evidence from the diff
The commit deletes the git submodule index entries for external/libsodium and external/lowdown. These had been removed from .gitmodules earlier, but the git tree still contained submodule references, which made git submodule update --init --recursive fail with ‘fatal: No url found for submodule path’. The patch is purely a repository-maintenance fix; no source files, build logic, cryptographic primitives, or protocol handling are modified.
Changed components
git repository metadata (submodule index entries)Inspect captured patch +0 / −2
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