[petsc-dev] It would be really nice if you could run a single job on the pipeline with a branch

[Balay, Satish]

Even-though a fix addresses a breakage in a single build - that change
could break other things so its generally best to run a full test.

However if I need to run a single (or a few) test(s) - I would do [not
an elegant solution you are looking for]:

- start a new pipeline with the fix
- cancel this pipeline
- restart only the selected runs [within this pipeline]

The status in the MR will reflect that the pipeline failed [due to all the other canceled jobs]

Satish

On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev wrote:

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>    When you fix something on a branch that broke a particular job in gitlab-ci it would be nice to be able to run that single job on the updated branch instead of having to submit an entirely new pipeline
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>    Does this exist? Should this be requested in gitlab-ci issues?  Could we make a work around where we hack .gitlab-ci.yml based on a variable to return immediately except on the one truly desired job?
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