Tukukkk

I am new to GitLab CI. I have a project where I have a Gitlab project and I have jobs generate, detectchanges, compile. The requirement is generate job generates some go files from templates, detectchanges need to act on same codebase including all the changes that generate job generates (like tempCreateTest/myfile.txt in example below) and compile again acts on same codebase and chanfes as genetate job acts upon. My problems are:
1. I couldnt see the changes that generate job generates even using dependencies. For example tempCreateTest/myfile.txt is not being seen by detect_changes and compile jobs
2. When I use dependency where exactly gitlab downloads the artifacts?

Can someone please answer this?

Here is my sample .gitlab-ci.yml

image: golang:1.11



stages:

  - generate

  - detect_changes

  - build



before_script:

  # Setup environment

  - export GOPATH=/builds/$CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE/$CI_PROJECT_NAME/go

  - export GO_PROJECT_PATH=$GOPATH/src/gitlab.com/$CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE/$CI_PROJECT_NAME

  - export RAW_REPO_PATH=/builds/$CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE/$CI_PROJECT_NAME/.

  - mkdir -p $GO_PROJECT_PATH

  - cp -r $RAW_REPO_PATH/. $GO_PROJECT_PATH

  - cd $GOPATH

  - export GO111MODULE=on

  - cd $GO_PROJECT_PATH

  - source ci.sh # This has functions that jobs use



generate_ci:

  stage: generate

  script:

    - generate_ci_script

    - mkdir tempCreateTest/ . 

    - echo "Some text here." > tempCreateTest/myfile.txt # Stages after generate should see the changes

  artifacts:

    untracked: true



detect_changes_ci:

  stage: detect_changes

  script:

    - detect_changes_ci_script 

  dependencies:

    - generate_ci



compile_ci:

  stage: detect_changes

  script:

    - compile_ci_script

  dependencies:

    - generate_ci

You can use CI artifacts or caching to accomplish that. Please take a look at the examples from the previous links.