On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 03:03:17PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 03:56:03PM +0100, Erik Skultety wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 01:53:49PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 02:42:54PM +0100, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > > Unfortunately GitLab doesn't have a different mechanism on how to
mark
> > > jobs as skipped or disabled apart from the 'only'/'except'
pragmas.
> > > Use the 'except' pragma for the job templates to skip jobs which
define
> > > the DISABLE_JOB variable.
> >
> > What's wrong with using
> >
> > when: never (or manual to let devs force it from the UI)
> >
>
> 'when: never' can only be used in conjunction with the 'rules'
keyword [1],[2]
> which in turn is mutually exclusive with 'only/except' [3] which we
currently
> utilize.
Gitlab recommends use of "rules" over "only/except", so we should
probably change that.
I noticed, but it either wasn't clear or I simply missed in the docs how you
can restrict job execution by a particular branch with rules.
Erik