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How to change pipeline badge name

As the standard pipeline badge from GitLab looks like this

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you can tell pretty well that those are not really distinguishable.

Is there a way to change the pipeline text manually or programmatically to something else for each badge?

Btw, the badges were added with those links

https://gitlab.com/my-group/my-repository/badges/master/pipeline.svg
https://gitlab.com/my-group/my-repository/badges/dev/pipeline.svg

Additional facts:

  • The pipeline runs locally on my computer
  • My repo is private
Solution

  • I know it is a bit of an old post, but I was looking for the same and found that it is available now since GitLab 13.1.

    The text for a badge can be customized to differentiate between multiple coverage jobs that run in the same pipeline. Customize the badge text and width by adding the key_text=custom_text and key_width=custom_key_width parameters to the URL:

    https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/badges/main/coverage.svg?job=karma&key_text=Frontend+Coverage&key_width=130

    The example is for the Coverage badge but this also works for Pipelines, so in your case:

    https://gitlab.com/my-group/my-repository/badges/master/pipeline.svg?key_text=master&key_width=50
https://gitlab.com/my-group/my-repository/badges/dev/pipeline.svg?key_text=dev&key_width=50

    (Found this via https://microfluidics.utoronto.ca/gitlab/help/ci/pipelines/settings.md#custom-badge-text)