Gitlab allows you not only to have free private repositories, but also to test them using free runners. These can run automatically, on push, for any branch or tag.
I keep a few private repositories with them, for personal projects and small experiments. I decided to give Gitlab CI a shot for a PostgreSQL-backed Clojure project.
There’s a basic example on the Gitlab CI repository. It gets and installs lein, which isn’t necessary. Instead, we’ll build use the clojure:lein Docker image.
We got better performance with the last changes I made to the import process, at the cost of parallelization and a significantly less clean Clojure codebase.
As I was going about wrapping them up, I got a recommendation from Michael Hunger. Summarized:
Well then. So much for that feature branch.