test-before

⚠️ The behavior described below was always GitHub-specific, and as of #21d3f0 will no longer work.
Use init instead of before when the main intent is to trigger a prebuild and you previously relied on a single before without any init. Use before to extract common steps when both init and command are also present.

.gitpod.yml (this will no longer behave as described below)

tasks:
  - before: |
      echo `gp url` >> before.txt
    command: |
      echo `gp url` >> command.txt

This repo demonstrates the following

1. A gitpod before task is run as part of a prebuild even if there is no init task
2. The before task is run again in front of the command task in the workspace
3. The workspace URL returned by gp url is different for the prebuild workspace.

How to test

• Open this repo in a gitpod workspace
• before.txt contains 2 lines - one with the URL of the prebuild workspace, one with the URL of the main workspace
• command.txt contains the url of the main workspace

touch
touch
touch
touch
touch 31
touch 32
touch 33
touch 34

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