Fixing Double Ci Runs When Pushing to Gitlab Branches
A while back I realized, that every time I pushed some commits to a branch on GitLab two separate CI pipelines started. That soon took up lots of free CI-minutes and became a problem. After some research I found out that this is, while it’s to be expected due to the design of the system, avoidable with a specific configuration addition.
The reason for the double run is, that CI pipelines run for several events in a repository, the two here are push events to a branch and push events to an existing merge request.
The solution sounds as logical as you would expect: just™ tell the pipeline the following:
- if this CI run event is for a branch push and no merge request exists, then run it
- if this CI run event is for a branch push and a merge request exists, then don’t run it
- if this CI run event is for a merge request push then run it
or in GitLab’s CI YAML format:
or with an existing rule:
While it looks complicated it’s an addition to my existing workflow that is easy to handle. And it saves CI minutes.
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