Cannot push from gitlab-ci.yml

Question

With my colleagues, we work on a C++ library that becomes more and more important each day. We already built continuous integration utilities through the gitlab-ci.yml

Answer 1

You could also provide user and password (user with write access) as secret variables and use them.

Example:

before_script:
 - git remote set-url origin https://$GIT_CI_USER:$GIT_CI_PASS@gitlab.com/$CI_PROJECT_PATH.git
 - git config --global user.email 'myuser@mydomain.com'
 - git config --global user.name 'MyUser'

You have to define GIT_CI_USER and GIT_CI_PASS as secret variables (you could always create dedicated user for this purpose).

With this configuration you could normally work with git. I'm using this approach to push the tags after the release (with Axion Release Gradle Pluing - http://axion-release-plugin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)

Example release job:

release:
  stage: release
  script:
    - git branch
    - gradle release -Prelease.disableChecks -Prelease.pushTagsOnly
    - git push --tags
  only:
   - master