GitLab QA suite depends on default branch named master
We need to change the default branch name from master
to main
for all new projects created on GitLab.com, see gitlab-com/gl-infra/delivery#1356 (closed) .
As part of the change gitlab-com/gl-infra/production#3065 (closed) , we enabled this setting on staging, but unfortunately the number of QA tests failed https://ops.gitlab.net/gitlab-org/quality/staging/-/pipelines/350764/failures .
Before we are able to continue with this change, QA pipelines need to support different default branch name.
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Add custom default branch name support to GitLab QA: !596 (merged) -
Add custom default branch name support the QA tests and test framework: gitlab!48967 (merged)
The QA framework will use the project or instance-wide default branch name, if it is set. I.e., if we set main
as an instance-wide default, the QA framework should detect it. If it is not set, the QA framework will use master
as the default, which matches the current default for a fresh GitLab instance.
A QA_DEFAULT_BRANCH
environment variable can be set to override the default until the framework is updated. That is, if we change the source code so that main
is the default, we'll need to update the QA framework, but until that QA framework update is merged, QA_DEFAULT_BRANCH
can be set to main
so that the tests will work.