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Stephen Colebourne
A workflow consists of a number of jobs. A common setup is to have a build job followed by a release job, where the build job always runs but the release job only runs on a tag. In order to work, the workspace has to be passed from the build job to the release job. As such, the build job has to end with
persist_to_workspace
.
But this means that
persist_to_workspace
is being called on the build jobs where it is utterly pointless. This slows down the build and wastes your disk space.
This proposal is for CircleCI to change
persist_to_workspace
so that it is a no-op if there is no subsequent job in the workflow.
jobs: build: executor: jdk8 steps: - run: echo "build" - persist_to_workspace: root: . paths: - . release: executor: jdk8 steps: - attach_workspace: at: . - run: echo "release"workflows: ci_build: jobs: - build: filters: branches: only: /.
/ tags: only: /^v.
/ - release: requires: - build filters: branches: ignore: /.
/ tags: only: /^v.
/
As a separate request, it should be a lot easier to pass the whole diskspace from one job to another. Currently it requires 4 lines in the first job and 3 lines in the second job. Can we not have sensible defaults for the root and path?
CCI-I-898