Cool! Note that you can do things like this without going through the API git push -o merge_request.create -o merge_request.target=maint
https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/push_options.html#push-options-for-merge-requests Barry Smith <bsm...@petsc.dev> writes: > A long time ago Oana asked me how come when you switched back to a > previously built branch it sometimes had to recompile the libraries and could > it be smart enough to use touch in some way to not have to recompile. So I > made a bash script that automatically changed PETSC_ARCH with branch changes > and recovered the built libraries; thus making changing branches become much > less painful, took at long time to get it right :( > > Then I went a bit crazy and added support for submitting pipelines without > cut and pasting and going to GitLab, checking on pipelines without going to > Gitlab, start MR without cut and paste or manually going to Gitlab and > automatically using the maint branch when the submitted branch was off maint > instead of master (a mistake I make all the time). Plus a bunch of other > things. > > One benefit of this is I now do all my initial testing BEFORE making a MR. > > Anyways the scripts are horribly crude, but functional, with even a little > error checking. Even if you don't like the scripts you might take parts of > them that run pipelines without going to Gitlab etc, modify them and use them > standalone. Feel free to MR alternative scripts in the repository that we > also share. > > The software can be downloaded with > > git clone gitlab.com:petsc/petscgitbash <gitlab.com://petsc/petscgitbash> > > Barry
