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Last I checked, there were a lot of little things that made it not possible to move to GitLab CI. E.g.: - Can't customize your git checkout process (e.g. shall

Last I checked, there were a lot of little things that made it not possible to move to GitLab CI. E.g.: - Can't customize your git checkout process (e.g. shallow clone with depth, or merging source branch with target branch with certain strategy) - Can't make job run/not run based on filter on source branch/target branch/etc. of a merge request - Can't dynamically make certain jobs only run on certain agent machines So I'm still stuck with Jenkins for now. I know we love bashing Jenkins but I have yet to come across anything that offers the same amount of flexibility.

yRetsyM 7y ago
You can definitely do all of your requirements, but likely as a result of recent features 1) you can customise the git checkout depth and style: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#shallow-cloning https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#shallow-cloning https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#git-strategy https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#git-strategy 2) https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#onlyexcept-basic https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#onlyexcept-basic 3) https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#tags https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#tags I'm not associated with gitlab at all but happy to give pointers if anyone wants to contact me direct
- saidmasoud 7y ago
  2) was released in October, about six months ago [0]. I'd also like to add: as a user of GitLab for about a year now, their steady rate of feature releases has bene pretty pleasant, even if I can't take advantage of some right away. [0] https://about.gitlab.com/2018/10/22/gitlab-11-4-released/#run-jobs-codeonlycodecodeexceptcode-for-modifications-on-a-path-or-file https://about.gitlab.com/2018/10/22/gitlab-11-4-released/#ru...
  - chinhodado 7y ago
    I'm not sure that's what I needed. For example, I wanted to trigger a job only for a merge request, and only if the target branch of the merge request is e.g. master. Is that possible? Trigger a job only for a MR is possible, but I don't know how to further do the later branch filtering.
    - cpitman 7y ago
      When using a merge_request pipeline, GitLab defines additional variables for the run. That includes `CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME`. So it would look something like this: job: only: refs: - merge_requests variables: - $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME == "master"
      - chinhodado 7y ago
        Oh wow I didn't know you can do conditionals with variable like that. I'll give it a try later, thanks!
      - saidmasoud 7y ago
        We generally only merge into master at my org, but I didn't know you could conditionally trigger jobs using an equality expression on a GitLab-provided variable. I'll have to keep this in the back pocket for future reference, thanks! Any docs that describe this feature in more detail?

yRetsyM 7y ago

You can definitely do all of your requirements, but likely as a result of recent features 1) you can customise the git checkout depth and style: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#shallow-cloning https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#shallow-cloning https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#git-strategy https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#git-strategy 2) https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#onlyexcept-basic https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#onlyexcept-basic 3) https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#tags https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#tags I'm not associated with gitlab at all but happy to give pointers if anyone wants to contact me direct

saidmasoud 7y ago
2) was released in October, about six months ago [0]. I'd also like to add: as a user of GitLab for about a year now, their steady rate of feature releases has bene pretty pleasant, even if I can't take advantage of some right away. [0] https://about.gitlab.com/2018/10/22/gitlab-11-4-released/#run-jobs-codeonlycodecodeexceptcode-for-modifications-on-a-path-or-file https://about.gitlab.com/2018/10/22/gitlab-11-4-released/#ru...
- chinhodado 7y ago
  I'm not sure that's what I needed. For example, I wanted to trigger a job only for a merge request, and only if the target branch of the merge request is e.g. master. Is that possible? Trigger a job only for a MR is possible, but I don't know how to further do the later branch filtering.
  - cpitman 7y ago
    When using a merge_request pipeline, GitLab defines additional variables for the run. That includes `CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME`. So it would look something like this: job: only: refs: - merge_requests variables: - $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME == "master"
    - chinhodado 7y ago
      Oh wow I didn't know you can do conditionals with variable like that. I'll give it a try later, thanks!
    - saidmasoud 7y ago
      We generally only merge into master at my org, but I didn't know you could conditionally trigger jobs using an equality expression on a GitLab-provided variable. I'll have to keep this in the back pocket for future reference, thanks! Any docs that describe this feature in more detail?