Comment by nakedgremlin

Yeah, my experience on testing GitLab CI/CD script logic is to use a sacrificial branch and grind through test commits until it works, then Squash commits when merging back into main branch.

It's so sad that we can't just run local validations on the CI/CD script through a local emulator. If they had a local emulator approach similar to what is provided by Firebase for their cloud products, that would be amazing.