Have a git infrastructure that consists of one top repo with several subrepos. Then we have a Jenkins infrastructure that takes a specific top-repo-branch to execute a pipeline on it.
Now I have committed and pushed code to a custom branch in one of the subrepos.
Naturally I'd like to test the jenkins pipeline with my custom code without merging into master or develop first.
Therefore how do I create a top-repo-branch that contains default branches in all repos (usually develop) except for that one repo I have worked on, where it should instead have my custom branch checked out?
Unless I'm missing something, it's just a regular branch :
# starting from top repo :
git checkout -b newbranch
cd subrepo/
git fetch
git checkout <target branch> # or git merge, or edit files and commit+push,
# or anything ...
# go back to your top repo, and commit this new state :
git add subrepo
git commit
Yeah somehow I expected some more complex procedure and I lacked the keywords to google that right (subrepos are usually referred to as submodules). Thank you!