Developer tips & tricks

Getting the latest HEAD commits for all submodules from the Nimbus repo

Warning: revert the submodules to their designated commits with make update before branching, committing and creating new PRs. Don't bump submodules if you don't need to. Don't blame Git submodules for any breakage. Don't expect any form of official support for this workflow.

From a Nimbus repo where make deps was executed:

make update-remote # to get the latest HEADs for all submodules, temporarily
cd vendor/nim-beacon-chain
git checkout master # because you were probably on a detached HEAD
git pull # not needed the first time, just when you want the latest commits in this repo
         # and you feel confident that no relevant changes happened in its dependencies
make testnet0