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

[Jed Brown]

"Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev" <petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

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

FWIW, any containerized jobs can easily be run locally.

I think there would be complexity for GitLab to deploy this due to
artifacts and other state that may create dependencies between jobs, but
for our independent jobs, it should be possible.