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authorFabio Busatto <fabio@gitlab.com>2018-03-30 14:45:57 +0000
committerFabio Busatto <fabio@gitlab.com>2018-03-30 14:45:57 +0000
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@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ future GitLab releases.**
| **CI_RUNNER_EXECUTABLE_ARCH** | all | 10.6 | The OS/architecture of the GitLab Runner executable (note that this is not necessarily the same as the environment of the executor) |
| **CI_PIPELINE_ID** | 8.10 | 0.5 | The unique id of the current pipeline that GitLab CI uses internally |
| **CI_PIPELINE_TRIGGERED** | all | all | The flag to indicate that job was [triggered] |
-| **CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE** | 10.0 | all | The source for this pipeline, one of: push, web, trigger, schedule, api, external. Pipelines created before 9.5 will have unknown as source |
+| **CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE** | 10.0 | all | Indicates how the pipeline was triggered. Possible options are: `push`, `web`, `trigger`, `schedule`, `api`, and `pipeline`. For pipelines created before GitLab 9.5, this will show as `unknown` |
| **CI_PROJECT_DIR** | all | all | The full path where the repository is cloned and where the job is run |
| **CI_PROJECT_ID** | all | all | The unique id of the current project that GitLab CI uses internally |
| **CI_PROJECT_NAME** | 8.10 | 0.5 | The project name that is currently being built (actually it is project folder name) |