How to update node version in gitlab CI using labels

Question

I am using gitlab and it's CI for deployment of a node app. I can't seem to find an easy way to update the version on deployment based off an MR's labels.

Ex. I create an MR and add the label 'minor'. How can I call 'npm version minor' in the gitlab yml?

Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

You can access your MR labels with $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_LABELS in your gitlab-ci.yml. This will return a list of labels, so I don't know the format you will get.

in your script :

npm version $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_LABELS

I did not test it, but you can give it a try.

You can see complete predefined environment variables here