Trying to use this as a submodule

[fullwoody]

Good afternoon, I am trying to use this as a sub module for an internal GitHub action. I have pulled a copy of the GitHub repo and added it as a sub module, I cant seem to get it to find the repo within it though. My company doesn't allow forking, nor does it allow me to "use" external repos which is why I downloaded it and added it as a sub module.

I am attempting to check out the sub module but it keeps failing saying repo cannot be found. I have cloned the repo into my primary repo, the main branch is simply called main. the sub module is called FTP-Deploy-Action. I am really new at GitHub, I don't particularly care for it, I was always a TFS person. If anyone can help or give me an example of how to call this as a sub module i would be greatly appreciative.

ill put the code I'm using below, there are a variety of steps above which all seem to work, my next task after this is the actual use local FTP-Deploy-Action. But i am just trying to get through the checkout process:

• name checkout tools repo
  uses: actions/checkout@v2
  with:
  repository: MyRepo/FTP-Deploy-Action
  path: FTP-Deploy-Action
  submodules: 'recursive'
  ref: 'master'