Is it possible to get PR's / commits / work items from a submodule

[dbollish-stellar]

In my project environment, I have two team projects. One project is the top-level project and a the second is a shared project with several libraries. Both projects are stored in AzureDevops Git repos. The top-level project contains the second project as a submodule. We will update the submodule version from time to time as new functionality needs to be integrated with the top-level project.

Is there a way when generating release notes from a release pipeline to include the changes / PR's / work items that have changed in the submodule?

[rfennell]

If you only have one azure DevOps pipeline for the whole set of repos (a checkout of the main repo + submodule) I can't think of an obvious answer as the Microsoft API calls I use check for changes (commits an associated WI) checks for differences between whole builds, there is no path filter.

The way I would tackle the problem is to have an extra build on the shared repo that triggers in a commit, or maybe on a completed PR. This should

• build the code
• run any unit tests you have
• generate the release notes

These re look release notes can uploaded to a wiki, or merged into larger sets of notes as needed