Artifacts being wiped away at next stage

[Andrew Mattie]

When I try to pass artifacts between stages, it _feels_ like I'm doing the right thing, but it's not working because git itself keeps wiping away my artifacts in later stages.

I'm using GitLab v8.10.6-ee and runners running v1.4.2.

Here's a truncated version of my .gitlab-ci.yml:

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stages:

  - build

  - test

variables:

  DOTNET_RUNTIME: debian.8-x64

##########

# build

##########

build:

  stage: build

  image: microsoft/dotnet:1.0.0-preview2-sdk

  script:

    - cd "$CI_PROJECT_DIR"

    - git submodule init

    - git submodule update

    - dotnet restore

    - dotnet build -c Release **/project.json

  artifacts:

    untracked: true

    expire_in: 1 week

    paths:

      - src

      - test

      - vendor

##########

# test

##########

test:

  stage: test

  image: microsoft/dotnet:1.0.0-preview2-sdk

  script:

    - find test -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -path test -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 dotnet test

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Here's the output of the 'build' build:

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Running with gitlab-ci-multi-runner 1.4.2 (5a8552b)

Using Docker executor with image microsoft/dotnet:1.0.0-preview2-sdk ...

Pulling docker image microsoft/dotnet:1.0.0-preview2-sdk ...

Running on runner-be73a704-project-111-concurrent-0 via ip...

Fetching changes...

Removing src/xxx/bin/

[...]

HEAD is now at 7ebe38d CI testing

From https://yyy/zzz

   7ebe38d..6f4ce6c  master     -> origin/master

Checking out 6f4ce6cc as master...

$ cd "$CI_PROJECT_DIR"

[...]

Uploading artifacts...

src: found 198 matching files                      

test: found 121 matching files                     

vendor: found 855 matching files                   

untracked: found 158 files                         

Uploading artifacts to coordinator... ok            id=2002 responseStatus=201 Created token=CbomMJer

Build succeeded

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Here's the output of the 'test' build:

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Running with gitlab-ci-multi-runner 1.4.2 (5a8552b)

Using Docker executor with image microsoft/dotnet:1.0.0-preview2-sdk ...

Pulling docker image microsoft/dotnet:1.0.0-preview2-sdk ...

Running on runner-48a465ca-project-111-concurrent-0 via ip...

Fetching changes...

Removing src/xxx/bin/

[...]

Compilation failed.

    0 Warning(s)

    37 Error(s)

Time elapsed 00:00:00.0244089

SUMMARY: Total: 1 targets, Passed: 0, Failed: 1.

ERROR: Build failed: exit code 1

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It feels somewhat issue 1588, but with a slight twist since I'm not seeing the "was unexpected at this time" statement at the bottom.

Any help or advice?

Andrew

[Andrew Mattie]

Got it figured out. I realized my artifacts were being extracted beneath all the cleanup, and my problem was in something else.

[Drew Blessing]

Hi Andrew,

I believe you need to add `dependencies` in your secondary stage. See http://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ci/yaml/README.html#dependencies for more information. This page does say that artifacts should implicitly be passed among stages so maybe there is a bug here. Give the `dependencies` a try and based on your results we can decide whether to file a bug or not. 

[Drew Blessing]

Whoops! Just saw your second note. I'm glad you figured it out!