[Feature] Allow to run Kiri if any revision includes a submodules that doesn't have origin (broken repo)

[whinis]

I am working on a repo where I had the code as a sub repo but never actually pushed the code to an origin, as I was the only one working on it. Now that I have started to do CI/CD to check the board files I noticed that the runs never succeed when running Kiri through KiBot as it would attempt to do a submodule update at some point and as there is no origin fail. I fixed it on the current commit but that leaves several more without a .gitmodules files and whenever a Diff is attempted it fails.

Whats the best way to fix this?

[set-soft]

Do you have an example?
Do you have the logs for this error?
From your description I can just guess that:

self.run_git(['submodule', 'update', '--init', '--recursive'], cwd=git_tmp_wd)

Failed, but: How can KiBot know the fail was just because the repo is in a wrong state? (incomplete)

[whinis]

Here is the logs at -vv in question

DEBUG:- CWD: /builds/oops-electronics/24bit-usb-computer-monitor (kibot - kiplot.py:161)
DEBUG:Checking out a0780aacfa5db09e6a6467b8fdd8ddc335b3d77e to /tmp/tmp-kibot-kiri-checkout-ymmvln15 (kibot - out_kiri.py:298)
DEBUG:- Executing: /usr/bin/git worktree add --detach --force /tmp/tmp-kibot-kiri-checkout-ymmvln15 a0780aacfa5db09e6a6467b8fdd8ddc335b3d77e (kibot - kiplot.py:159)
DEBUG:- CWD: /builds/oops-electronics/24bit-usb-computer-monitor (kibot - kiplot.py:161)
DEBUG:- Output from command: Preparing worktree (detached HEAD a0780aa)
HEAD is now at a0780aa Production release candidate of the 2.4inch computer monitor sent to JLC
 (kibot - kiplot.py:151)
DEBUG:- Executing: /usr/bin/git submodule update --init --recursive (kibot - kiplot.py:159)
DEBUG:- CWD: /tmp/tmp-kibot-kiri-checkout-ymmvln15 (kibot - kiplot.py:161)
ERROR:Trace stack: (kibot.gs - gs.py:890)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/dist-packages/kibot/kiplot.py", line 169, in run_command
    res = _run_command(command, change_to)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/dist-packages/kibot/kiplot.py", line 155, in _run_command
    return run(command, check=True, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT, cwd=change_to)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/subprocess.py", line 577, in run
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
                             output=stdout, stderr=stderr)
ERROR:Running ['/usr/bin/git', 'submodule', 'update', '--init', '--recursive'] returned 128 (kibot.gs - gs.py:907)
DEBUG:- Output from command: fatal: No url found for submodule path 'Code/MonitorFirmware' in .gitmodules
 (kibot.gs - gs.py:910)
DEBUG:Removing temporal checkout at /tmp/tmp-kibot-kiri-checkout-ymmvln15 (kibot - out_any_diff.py:82)
DEBUG:- Executing: /usr/bin/git worktree remove --force /tmp/tmp-kibot-kiri-checkout-ymmvln15 (kibot - kiplot.py:159)
DEBUG:- CWD: /builds/oops-electronics/24bit-usb-computer-monitor (kibot - kiplot.py:161)
DEBUG:Removing /root/.config/kicad/9.0/fp-lib-table (kibot - config.py:596)
Cleaning up project directory and file based variables 00:01
ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1

In this case the offending debug line is

DEBUG:- Output from command: fatal: No url found for submodule path 'Code/MonitorFirmware' in .gitmodules
 (kibot.gs - gs.py:910)

I am somewhat guessing because of how I tried to fix this repo side, but even if the HEAD has a correct URL previous commits do not so they fail as well.

[set-soft]

The repo is broken and git reports it.
I could add a catch for this problem and make it non-fatal.
But for this I must be able to reproduce the problem, so I can verify the code actually catches this particular situation.
Is this repo available? Can you create a simple repo with this issue? 2 or 3 commits should be enough, I don't know which commands you run to get this breakage.

[whinis]

I will create a repo soon that reproduces it, didn't have time this weekend.