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
