Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery

Logging and troubleshooting techniques

We can troubleshoot a problematic config YML script without having to make Git commits by using the CircleCI API. One technique that we can do is to create another folder and place a duplicate of our config YML script into it and then use this YML script as our debugging script. Once we can verify that the YML script is working correctly we can update the original YML script. This is useful since we won't be clogging up the Git history with troubleshooting commits but instead we will hit the CircleCI API directly.