Is there any automatic way to update the parent git repo to point to the latest commit of its submodule?

Question

Every time I push a commit to the submodule I need to update the parent repo to the latest commit in the submodule. Is there any automatic way to do that in the remote?

Every time push a commit in the submodule repo i want the parent to automatically point to the latest commit of the child repo. Please suggest if its possible and how?

Answer 1

Using gitlab-ci in the submodule, I was able to trigger the parent to automatically update the master branch in parent when a merge request for the submodule master branch is completed.

stages:
  - build

build_job_dev:
  stage: build
  variables:
    PLUGIN_NAME: coppercrm  
  trigger:
    project: Plugins/parent
    branch: development
  only: 
    - master

I hope this could help someone who is looking for updating parent repo whenever a submodule updates