If the workflows section of a CircleCI config isn’t valid, running circleci config validate -c .circleci/config.yml will still return that it’s valid. What’s worse is that the Builds section of CircleCI’s interface won’t show anything. It’s like your build doesn’t exist. If however, you go to the Wo…

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We are working to improve the CLI experience around config, including fixing this problem. It’s very much on our radar to make config validation less sad-making.

Hi Kurt, I’m working on the project to validate config in a better way from the CLI at the moment. Would it be possible for you to share your config file that caused the issue with us? Would you email it to marc@circleci.com please? It will allow us to make sure that the issues that you hit are ha…

Thanks for letting us know. Just wanted to add that I think Circle CI is great, but the ability to test locally is the biggest pitfall. Since I use workflows heavily the only way to validate or test my config is to push a commit. Not ideal. Also the error that appears in circle CI is very sad-making…

Running workflows locally is likely a non-starter, but our long-term plan here is to make it much easier to run builds from the CLI. So although it would not run locally it wouldn’t require a commit->push->browser->find new build flow that is admittedly not ideal. A new version of the CLI that is in…

Has there been any progress on this? Has this new validation script made it out of testing yet? It probably would have prevented Previously valid 2.0 config now breaking without any related changes reported in the changelog from breaking my deploy process.

CircleCI Local CLI doesn't validate config file's workflows

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Circleci config validate says config valid, but it isn't
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CircleCI Local CLI doesn't validate config file's workflows

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