Commit latest submodule versions from UI
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Description
I have a modular application that consists of different modules being developed by different teams and so, following the Git best practice I have created one Git repo for the application with the different modules having a separate Git repo each and linked to the application repo via git submodules.
My usual work flow involves waiting for all the teams to push the latest commits to their own module repos, and then I have to pull all the latest commits into my local machine, do a git submodule update and then commit all the revisions of to the submodule updates as a new commit in the application repo.
I just imagine if I could perform this work flow from GitLab UI instead of having to pull to my local machine.
Proposal
It would be nice if GitLab has a UI page that lists down all submodules of a repo, regardless of where in the directory hierarchy the submodules are, and give an option to commit the references to the latest commit of each submodule (preferably having option to multi-select which submodules to commit). Different branches of the parent repo can link to different branches of the submodules so this new UI page should be able to support this.
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