Save your workflows into a Gitlab repository

Description

This template is inspired by Save your workflows into a GitHub repository by hikerspath and Back Up Your n8n Workflows To Github by jon-n8n.

Basic

Retrieve all workflows from an n8n instance and save it on a gitlab project. If the workflow exist, il will only save the changes.

Flow

What the workflow does :

Sets custom parameters
Gets workflows
Iterates through each workflow one by one
Get the file from Gitlab if exists
Compare the files as objects (not as strings)
Return a status on the workflow
Create, Edit or ignore the file depending on the status
Return a list of status for each workflow

Configuration

Select a credential in each Gitlab nodes.

Edit the data in node "Globals" :
repo.owner : slug of the user or team owning the repo
repo.name : slug of the repository
repo.branch : branch to commit on
repo.path : from root of the repository. Should end with /

Comments

Error on gitlab nodes will not stop the run but will list the current workflow as error in the results

Some fields are ignored to determined if there is changes :
updatedAt : should be ignored if only ignores fields are changed
globals : it's running information, no need to follow the changes