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- Reduce from minutes to seconds the time taken for your distributed developers to clone and fetch large repositories and projects.
- Reduce from minutes to seconds the time taken for your distributed developers to clone and fetch large repositories and projects.
- Enable all of your developers to contribute ideas and work in parallel, no matter where they are.
- Enable all of your developers to contribute ideas and work in parallel, no matter where they are.
- Balance the load between your **primary** and **secondary** nodes, or offload your automated tests to a **secondary** node.
- Balance the read-only load between your **primary** and **secondary** nodes.
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- [Selective synchronization](configuration.md#selective-synchronization) applies only to files and repositories. Other datasets are replicated to the **secondary** node in full, making it inappropriate for use as an access control mechanism.
- [Selective synchronization](configuration.md#selective-synchronization) applies only to files and repositories. Other datasets are replicated to the **secondary** node in full, making it inappropriate for use as an access control mechanism.
- Object pools for forked project deduplication work only on the **primary** node, and are duplicated on the **secondary** node.
- Object pools for forked project deduplication work only on the **primary** node, and are duplicated on the **secondary** node.
- [External merge request diffs](../../merge_request_diffs.md) will not be replicated if they are on-disk, and viewing merge requests will fail. However, external MR diffs in object storage **are** supported. The default configuration (in-database) does work.
- [External merge request diffs](../../merge_request_diffs.md) will not be replicated if they are on-disk, and viewing merge requests will fail. However, external MR diffs in object storage **are** supported. The default configuration (in-database) does work.
- GitLab Runners cannot register with a **secondary** node. Support for this is [planned for the future](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/3294).
| `CI_EXTERNAL_PULL_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME` | 12.3 | all | The target branch name of the pull request if [the pipelines are for external pull requests](../ci_cd_for_external_repos/index.md#pipelines-for-external-pull-requests). Available only if `only: [external_pull_requests]` is used and the pull request is open. |
| `CI_EXTERNAL_PULL_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME` | 12.3 | all | The target branch name of the pull request if [the pipelines are for external pull requests](../ci_cd_for_external_repos/index.md#pipelines-for-external-pull-requests). Available only if `only: [external_pull_requests]` is used and the pull request is open. |
| `CI_EXTERNAL_PULL_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_SHA` | 12.3 | all | The HEAD SHA of the target branch of the pull request if [the pipelines are for external pull requests](../ci_cd_for_external_repos/index.md#pipelines-for-external-pull-requests). Available only if `only: [external_pull_requests]` is used and the pull request is open. |
| `CI_EXTERNAL_PULL_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_SHA` | 12.3 | all | The HEAD SHA of the target branch of the pull request if [the pipelines are for external pull requests](../ci_cd_for_external_repos/index.md#pipelines-for-external-pull-requests). Available only if `only: [external_pull_requests]` is used and the pull request is open. |
| `CI_JOB_ID` | 9.0 | all | The unique id of the current job that GitLab CI uses internally |
| `CI_JOB_ID` | 9.0 | all | The unique id of the current job that GitLab CI uses internally |
| `CI_JOB_IMAGE` | 12.9 | 12.9 | The name of the image running the CI job |
| `CI_JOB_MANUAL` | 8.12 | all | The flag to indicate that job was manually started |
| `CI_JOB_MANUAL` | 8.12 | all | The flag to indicate that job was manually started |
| `CI_JOB_NAME` | 9.0 | 0.5 | The name of the job as defined in `.gitlab-ci.yml` |
| `CI_JOB_NAME` | 9.0 | 0.5 | The name of the job as defined in `.gitlab-ci.yml` |
| `CI_JOB_STAGE` | 9.0 | 0.5 | The name of the stage as defined in `.gitlab-ci.yml` |
| `CI_JOB_STAGE` | 9.0 | 0.5 | The name of the stage as defined in `.gitlab-ci.yml` |