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Passing global variable between jobs?

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zosrothko

22 Dec, 2015 07:18 AM

Hi

Is there a way to pass global variables between jobs?

Is there a way to run a script only once within a build, and not for each jobs?

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 22 Dec, 2015 11:39 PM

   

   Could you please give me a real-world scenario for these requirements?

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2. 2 Posted by zosrothko on 23 Dec, 2015 04:13 AM

   

   We are using those steps as some kind of QA

   # search for TODO within source tree
    grep -r TODO *
   # search for FIXME within source tree
     grep -r FIXME *
   # search for HACK within source tree
     grep -r HACK *
   # some statistics about the code base
     script: sloccount .
   

   The results are the same whatever matrix row is eun. So this feature will allow to reduce the overall time of execution by running those steps only once.

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 23 Dec, 2015 10:07 PM

   

   How would you know which job should run that script/sequence?

   If you are not going to have multiple jobs under your account to run jobs in parallel I'd probably replace matrix with a custom PowerShell script building those combinations and running as a single job/build.

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4. zosrothko closed this discussion on 17 May, 2018 09:04 AM.