feat(plugin): added ability to set branch name

README.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 - 🧑🏻‍💻 Let your teams control their own catalogs, and merge them into a master catalog
 - ⚡️ Git based generator, supports any git repo (e.g GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
 - Specify the git repo, it's branch and the files you want to merge into your master catalog
-- ✅ Configuration to override files and ensure all files in the catalog are unique 
+- ✅ Configuration to override files and ensure all files in the catalog are unique
 
 # How it works
 
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 EventCatalog supports [generators](https://www.eventcatalog.dev/docs/development/plugins/generators).
 Generators are scripts are run to pre build to generate content in your catalog. Generators can use the [EventCatalog SDK](https://www.eventcatalog.dev/docs/sdk).
 
-With this git generator you can connect to many git repos, and merge them into a master catalog. 
+With this git generator you can connect to many git repos, and merge them into a master catalog.
 
 This let's your teams control their own catalogs, and merge them into a master catalog, keeping the documentation close to the their code.
 

src/index.ts

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ type EventCatalogConfig = any;
 // Configuration the users give your catalog
 type GeneratorProps = {
   source: string;
+  branch?: string;
   content: string | string[];
   destination: string;
   debug?: boolean;
@@ -123,8 +124,8 @@ export default async (_: EventCatalogConfig, options: GeneratorProps) => {
     await execSync(`git sparse-checkout set ${options.content} --no-cone`, { cwd: tmpDir });
   }
 
-  // Checkout the main branch
-  await execSync(`git checkout main`, { cwd: tmpDir });
+  // Checkout the branch
+  await execSync(`git checkout ${options.branch || 'main'}`, { cwd: tmpDir });
 
   // Check for existing paths first
   if (!options.override) {

src/test/plugin.test.ts

@@ -50,6 +50,20 @@ describe('generator-federation', () => {
     expect(services).toHaveLength(4);
   });
 
+  describe('branch', () => {
+    it('clones the source directory (with the given branch) and copies the files specified in the content array to the destination directory', async () => {
+      await plugin(eventCatalogConfig, {
+        source: 'https://github.com/event-catalog/eventcatalog.git',
+        content: ['examples/basic/services'],
+        destination: path.join(catalogDir, 'services'),
+        branch: 'v1',
+      });
+
+      const services = await fs.readdir(path.join(catalogDir, 'services'));
+      expect(services).toHaveLength(2);
+    });
+  });
+
   describe('override', () => {
     it('overrides the content if the destination directory already exists and override is true', async () => {
       await plugin(eventCatalogConfig, {