[petsc-dev] CI update: please rebase before starting test pipelines

[Satish Balay]

PETSc devs using CI at gitlab,

One of the CI builds is failing - and the fix for it is now in latest maint/master [as of now].

All new test pipelines require this fix to succeed.

So please rebase your branch [over maint or master - as appropriate] before submitting any new test pipelines. i.e:

git checkout feature-branch
git fetch
git rebase origin/master [or origin/maint] # Note: do not skip 'origin/' as listed here

If the feature branch is not rebased - it will be stuck at stage-2 job arch-ci-linux-gcc-complex-opt.

To verify if a feature-branch has this fix - check with:

git branch --contains c0dad76995 feature-branch

Satish

On Thu, 30 Jan 2020, Satish Balay via petsc-dev wrote:

> To clarify:
> 
> CI uses .gitlab-ci.yaml from the branch - and not the latest from
> maint/master - so if your branch has old version of this file, and start
> a pipeline on it - it will get stuck - and timeout.
> 
> To determine if your branch has this .gitlab-ci.yaml change [requiring
> a rebase] - see if it has the commit:
> 
> git branch --contains 0b416d8e105a765da5769e4b7feab5986dc829a2
> 
> Satish
> 
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2020, Balay, Satish via petsc-dev wrote:
> 
> > PETSc devs using CI at gitlab,
> > 
> > With the current CI changes - before starting a test pipeline on a
> > branch at gitlab, its best to rebase the branch over current master as
> > of now [or maint - if appropriate].
> > 
> > If a test pipeline is created with non-rebased branch, some of the
> > stage-2 jobs will be stuck - so the pipeline won't complete.
> > 
> > Satish
> > 
>