How to delegate individual program components to the branches where they are used?

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Good day. Interested in how you are developing individual parts of the program, which will later be used in other branches? Let me explain with an example from my area. I am developing separate components, for example, a modal site window, in a special feature / modal-window branch, and then I want separate branches to automatically pick up the file with this component if it changes. Now what the process looks like: on the branch where I make a separate web application page and where I want to upload and use the component, I do git checkout feature/modal-window src/components/modals/interviewPlanningModal/InterviewPlanningModal.vue , thereby copying the file to current branch. Then I make changes/improvements in a file in a branch with a modal window. I go in turn to the branches, where this component is used and do the above copy operation. So the question is: how to simplify and automate this process? After all, the component can be used on ten branches. Do not do all this 10 times ... I hope that I described the problem more or less clearly.

Answer 1

It's kind of weird how you came up with the process. It usually looks like this:

1. Need a modal
   
2. We branch from the master, for example, into the feature / modal branch
   
3. We develop a modal
   
4. Testing
   
5. If everything is ok, then we make a merge request
   
6. Merge branch into master
   

There are, of course, long-lived branches, but personally I try to avoid them so that there are no problems with updating and conflicts.

Answer 2

You can try Git - submodules