[petsc-dev] Getting .gitlab.ci file out of repository? https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/settings.html

[Jed Brown]

Satish Balay via petsc-dev <petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

> say - you reorganized some configure code - and changed with-x to with-x11
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> This means the corresponding change should also be config/*.py - for tests not to break. [but other branches would still have to use whats valid for them].
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> So encoding examples/*.py a single/remote gitlab-ci.yaml just creates more problems

I thought Barry was just proposing inlining the configure options into .gitlab-ci.yml, which I think would work fine, but also don't clearly see a point.

> On Mon, 22 Jun 2020, Barry Smith wrote:
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>>   I see, the way it is now each test case in the .gitlab file is hardwired to an examples/*.py maybe we should just delete the examples/*.py and put them directly in the yaml file.