can't seem to get VARIABLE to work in `~/.gitlab-ci-local/.env`

[justinTM]

can't seem to get VARIABLE to work in `~/.gitlab-ci-local/.env`

[justinTM]

ah i see... it is not compatible with setting any variables via CLI. when i remove all --variable flags in the command, it succeeds. so definitely a bug. i guess no one uses this feature lol!

[justinTM]

it also apparently can't handle multiple VARIABLE flags inside dotenv file :/

[justinTM]

also, when you specify multiple variables inside a single VARIABLE, it only applies the second one (skipping the first):

# ~/.gitlab-ci-local/.env
VARIABLE="CI_JOB_TOKEN=$GITLAB_ACCESS_TOKEN;DOCKER_HOST='xxxxx'"

❯ gitlab-ci-local 'my-job'
Using fallback branch data
parsing and downloads finished in 21 ms
my-job starting shell (test)
my-job $ if [ -n "$CI_JOB_TOKEN" ]; then echo "can't find CI_JOB_TOKEN!" && exit 1; fi
my-job > can't find CI_JOB_TOKEN!
my-job finished in 11 ms  FAIL 1 

 FAIL  my-job
  > can't find CI_JOB_TOKEN!

putting a space instead of ; makes it work for the first variable but not for the second:

# ~/.gitlab-ci-local/.env
VARIABLE="CI_JOB_TOKEN=$GITLAB_ACCESS_TOKEN DOCKER_HOST='xxxxx'"

❯ gitlab-ci-local 'my-job'
Using fallback branch data
parsing and downloads finished in 22 ms
my-job starting shell (test)
my-job $ if [ -n "$CI_JOB_TOKEN" ]; then echo "can't find CI_JOB_TOKEN!" && exit 1; fi
my-job $ if [ -n "$DOCKER_HOST" ]; then echo "can't find DOCKER_HOST!" && exit 1; fi
my-job > can't find DOCKER_HOST!
my-job finished in 12 ms  FAIL 1 

 FAIL  my-job
  > can't find DOCKER_HOST!

[firecow]

#992 Yeah, we are tracking the issue here