Gitlab CI integrates very nicely with the merge request interface in Gitlab. However, I’ve noticed that when a merge request is made, Gitlab CI only builds the branch that’s being merged in, and not the result of the merge. What this means is that the merge could potentially break the master branch,…

Gitlab CI merge request not building merged branch

jensamberg July 13, 2020, 11:40am 2

Exactly what you describe is what I am missing too. We now migrating from Jenkins to GitLab CI. And this feature is missing or I can not find. In Jenkins this option is called Merge before build.

I also open a thread here

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Gitlab CI merge request not building merged branch

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