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RuntimeError: Couldn't clone Stable Diffusion.

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opened this issue Jan 23, 2026

Creating venv in directory D:\Auto\stable-diffusion-webui\venv using python "C:\Program Files\Python310\python.exe" Requirement already satisfied: pip in d:\auto\stable-diffusion-webui\venv\lib\site-packages (22.2.1) Collecting pip Using cached pip-25.3-py3-none-any.whl (1.8 MB) Installing collected packages: pip Attempting uninstall: pip Found existing installation: pip 22.2.1 Uninstalling pip-22.2.1: Successfully uninstalled pip-22.2.1 Successfully installed pip-25.3 venv "D:\Auto\stable-diffusion-webui\venv\Scripts\Python.exe" Python 3.10.6 (tags/v3.10.6:9c7b4bd, Aug 1 2022, 21:53:49) [MSC v.1932 64 bit (AMD64)] Version: v1.10.1 Commit hash: 82a973c04367123ae98bd9abdf80d9eda9b910e2 Installing torch and torchvision Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121 Collecting torch==2.1.2 Using cached https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121/torch-2.1.2%2Bcu121-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl (2473.9 MB) Collecting torchvision==0.16.2 Using cached https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121/torchvision-0.16.2%2Bcu121-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl (5.6 MB) Collecting filelock (from torch==2.1.2) Using cached filelock-3.20.3-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.1 kB) Collecting typing-extensions (from torch==2.1.2) Using cached https://download.pytorch.org/whl/typing_extensions-4.15.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.3 kB) Collecting sympy (from torch==2.1.2) Using cached sympy-1.14.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (12 kB) Collecting networkx (from torch==2.1.2) Using cached networkx-3.4.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.3 kB) Collecting jinja2 (from torch==2.1.2) Using cached https://d21usjoq99fcb9.cloudfront.net/whl/jinja2-3.1.6-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.9 kB) Collecting fsspec (from torch==2.1.2) Using cached fsspec-2026.1.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (10 kB) Collecting numpy (from torchvision==0.16.2) Using cached numpy-2.2.6-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl.metadata (60 kB) Collecting requests (from torchvision==0.16.2) Using cached requests-2.32.5-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.9 kB) Collecting pillow!=8.3.*,>=5.3.0 (from torchvision==0.16.2) Using cached pillow-12.1.0-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl.metadata (9.0 kB) Collecting MarkupSafe>=2.0 (from jinja2->torch==2.1.2) Using cached markupsafe-3.0.3-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl.metadata (2.8 kB) Collecting charset_normalizer<4,>=2 (from requests->torchvision==0.16.2) Using cached charset_normalizer-3.4.4-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl.metadata (38 kB) Collecting idna<4,>=2.5 (from requests->torchvision==0.16.2) Using cached idna-3.11-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (8.4 kB) Collecting urllib3<3,>=1.21.1 (from requests->torchvision==0.16.2) Using cached urllib3-2.6.3-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.9 kB) Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17 (from requests->torchvision==0.16.2) Using cached certifi-2026.1.4-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.5 kB) Collecting mpmath<1.4,>=1.1.0 (from sympy->torch==2.1.2) Using cached mpmath-1.3.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (8.6 kB) Using cached pillow-12.1.0-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl (7.0 MB) Using cached filelock-3.20.3-py3-none-any.whl (16 kB) Using cached fsspec-2026.1.0-py3-none-any.whl (201 kB) Using cached https://d21usjoq99fcb9.cloudfront.net/whl/jinja2-3.1.6-py3-none-any.whl (134 kB) Using cached markupsafe-3.0.3-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl (15 kB) Using cached networkx-3.4.2-py3-none-any.whl (1.7 MB) Using cached numpy-2.2.6-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl (12.9 MB) Using cached requests-2.32.5-py3-none-any.whl (64 kB) Using cached charset_normalizer-3.4.4-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl (107 kB) Using cached idna-3.11-py3-none-any.whl (71 kB) Using cached urllib3-2.6.3-py3-none-any.whl (131 kB) Using cached certifi-2026.1.4-py3-none-any.whl (152 kB) Using cached sympy-1.14.0-py3-none-any.whl (6.3 MB) Using cached mpmath-1.3.0-py3-none-any.whl (536 kB) Using cached https://download.pytorch.org/whl/typing_extensions-4.15.0-py3-none-any.whl (44 kB) Installing collected packages: mpmath, urllib3, typing-extensions, sympy, pillow, numpy, networkx, MarkupSafe, idna, fsspec, filelock, charset_normalizer, certifi, requests, jinja2, torch, torchvision Successfully installed MarkupSafe-3.0.3 certifi-2026.1.4 charset_normalizer-3.4.4 filelock-3.20.3 fsspec-2026.1.0 idna-3.11 jinja2-3.1.6 mpmath-1.3.0 networkx-3.4.2 numpy-2.2.6 pillow-12.1.0 requests-2.32.5 sympy-1.14.0 torch-2.1.2+cu121 torchvision-0.16.2+cu121 typing-extensions-4.15.0 urllib3-2.6.3 Installing clip Installing open_clip Cloning assets into D:\Auto\stable-diffusion-webui\repositories\stable-diffusion-webui-assets... Cloning into 'D:\Auto\stable-diffusion-webui\repositories\stable-diffusion-webui-assets'... remote: Enumerating objects: 20, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (20/20), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (18/18), done. remote: Total 20 (delta 0), reused 20 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0) Receiving objects: 100% (20/20), 132.70 KiB | 1.47 MiB/s, done. Cloning Stable Diffusion into D:\Auto\stable-diffusion-webui\repositories\stable-diffusion-stability-ai... Cloning into 'D:\Auto\stable-diffusion-webui\repositories\stable-diffusion-stability-ai'... remote: Repository not found. fatal: repository 'https://github.com/Stability-AI/stablediffusion.git/' not found Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\Auto\stable-diffusion-webui\launch.py", line 48, in main() File "D:\Auto\stable-diffusion-webui\launch.py", line 39, in main prepare_environment() File "D:\Auto\stable-diffusion-webui\modules\launch_utils.py", line 412, in prepare_environment git_clone(stable_diffusion_repo, repo_dir('stable-diffusion-stability-ai'), "Stable Diffusion", stable_diffusion_commit_hash) File "D:\Auto\stable-diffusion-webui\modules\launch_utils.py", line 192, in git_clone run(f'"{git}" clone --config core.filemode=false "{url}" "{dir}"', f"Cloning {name} into {dir}...", f"Couldn't clone {name}", live=True) File "D:\Auto\stable-diffusion-webui\modules\launch_utils.py", line 116, in run raise RuntimeError("\n".join(error_bits)) RuntimeError: Couldn't clone Stable Diffusion. Command: "git" clone --config core.filemode=false "https://github.com/Stability-AI/stablediffusion.git" "D:\Auto\stable-diffusion-webui\repositories\stable-diffusion-stability-ai" Error code: 128 Press any key to continue . . .

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WebDev Author commented Jan 23, 2026

✅ FIX (2 simple options) 🔹 Option 1 (RECOMMENDED): Update WebUI (best & clean)

Your WebUI version is old and still points to the removed repo.

Steps: cd D:\Auto\stable-diffusion-webui git pull

Then run again:

webui-user.bat

✅ New versions use the correct Stable Diffusion repo automatically

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