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  • GitHub Actions Limitations and Gotchas
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2021
    Sorry, it was with `only:changes` and `needs`. Take a look at this issue[0] and this pipeline[1]. I've failed to find the failure mode in the documentation, so I suppose it may have been fixed since then - but we've developed an in-house workaround in the meantime that I'd trust a lot more than anything coming out from Gitlab.

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    > A monorepo isn't "all but the most simple use-cases", it's usually a fairly complex usecase, and Gitlab have a myriad of ways to make monorepo CI easier - dynamic pipelines, remote triggers, includes, etc.

    And every single feature you've mentioned here has a bug when combined with something else. That's the problem with Gitlab CI: everything works in isolation, but nothing composes properly.

    Take includes: they don't work with anchors, so you couldn't have a generic template rules in the "main" file getting reused in the included files. This makes sense though! Anchors are a yaml feature. So gitlab added their own pseudo-anchors, called `extends`. You'd assume a smart, context-aware merge to happen, but no! Gitlab decided to go with a dumb object merge. Because the `script` step is a list of string, if both the parent and the child specify a `script`, only the child's will be used! Gitlab has a `before_script` step which can be used to workaround the issue for single levels of inheritance, but anything more complex ends up in a dead end. This feels like a feature that's been bolted on without any sort of design work.

    [0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/31310

    [1]: https://gitlab.com/ensc/test-ci-needs/-/pipelines/78713602