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

[Smith, Barry F.]

> On Sep 22, 2019, at 11:26 PM, Balay, Satish <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> 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.

  Sure before a merge we want everything tested but when one is iterating on a single bug it would be a much better use of resources

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> However if I need to run a single (or a few) test(s) - I would do [not
> an elegant solution you are looking for]:
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> - start a new pipeline with the fix
> - cancel this pipeline
> - restart only the selected runs [within this pipeline]

   YES! 
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> 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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