For other branches, I want it uploaded so I can see the results, but doesn't update the official site.
Any ideas on this? Will staging areas work? What about gitlab environments?
Actually, your results are already being uploaded to the GitLab server (available for browsing or download) on every job that has "artifacts" set. E.g. see
https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/cmucl/cmucl-site/-/jobs/2264 where on the right column, there's the option to "download" or "browse" the artifacts from that job.
I'm thinking that if that's "enough", all we need to do is restrict the "pages" step to a specific branch with the "only" 'keyword' (soon to be replaced by 'rules':
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#rules) .
This should work well enough. I was changing the web pages locally, and have a simple server to look at them. But sometimes they look fine locally but when they get deployed, something is missing, usually an incorrect path.
For now, I'll just continue with my current branch changing the site and when it's merged, I'll update the config to deploy only on the master branch.
Thanks for your help.
HTH,
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Erik.
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