Newxan
Hi! 
So I saw that Credo now has support for checking only towards the git diff. credo/CHANGELOG.md at master · rrrene/credo · GitHub. This is very exciting since I have a large codebase and can now in theory add this to our pipeline for new merge requests.
I can get it working perfectly locally with as the documentation suggests mix credo diff --from-git-merge-base master but when I try to to add this to my gitlab ci pipeline
credo:
stage: test
needs: []
except:
- master
- next
script:
- mix deps.get
- mix credo diff --from-git-merge-base master --strict
I get the error:
$ mix credo diff --from-git-merge-base master --strict
** (diff) given value is not a Git ref: master
I’ve tried many different combinations, even experimented with changing so that Gitlab clones project instead of fetching in case it was a problem of not having the branches locally.
variables:
GIT_STRATEGY: clone
But so far no luck.
Any suggestions of what might be wrong?
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Newxan
After a bit more digging I found the problem.
It turns out that you do need to fetch the branch..
I also got sidetracked because it appears that there is some predefined variables in Gitlab that are only available under certain conditions.
For example
CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAMEandCI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_SHAare not available simply because you have a merge request, you must also set theonly: merge_requestsoption.TLDR
But in the end I found a setup that I’m satisfied with:
Since we are quick at merging and in practice really only target our default branch (next) anyways.