GitLab CI/CD
GitLab CI is the part of GitLab that enables automation for CI/CD.
Leave out ref on include project configurations
The typical include in a gitlab-ci.yml file might look something like this:
include:
- project: 'my-org/templates'
ref: main
file: '/common-functions.yml'However, if you leave out ref then the default branch (typically main or master).
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