Unable to set user environment variables for GitLab repos with nested groups

[vymarkov]

Describe the bug

I can't set environment variable for nested groups, for instance, nifty-panini/backend/gitpod-example.
Gitlab allows to create nested groups and place repo at under needed group, it's very often use case.

So I wanna have ability set variables like NPM_TOKEN under root group to use this variable on all repos under group without need to set variable to each repo.

Currently I can't set variable due to some bug or it's not implemented.

Steps to reproduce

1. Go to Settings UI and set environment variable BARFOO with value foobat and Organization/Repository with value nifty-panini/*
2. Open with GitPod with enabled Code editor by default by using link:
   https://gitpod.io/#/https://gitlab.com/nifty-panini/backend/gitpod-example/-/tree/master/
3. echo $BARFOO to verify that environment variable is present.
4. BARFOO is not set

I've tested it on Code / Theia editor, it doesn't work on both.

Expected behavior

I wanna set env variable for nested group on Gitlab and use this variable on each repo that belongs to the group.

Additional information

Workspace about info:

Version: 1.49.0
Commit: 20ded0d97c41cb686098d14b9e1f0533177300d1
Date: 2020-12-17T09:27:27.064Z
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_0_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36 OPR/73.0.3856.284
Workspace ID: c81ce827-d4bb-4c8f-b989-6fb869640014

Example repository

https://gitlab.com/nifty-panini/backend/gitpod-example/-/tree/master/

[vymarkov]

according to docs it should work without issues, but may be implementation should be adjusted to Gitlab use case

[corneliusludmann]

Related: #1358

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[vymarkov]

it's still relevant

[clayton-bridge]

Any update on this? I'm having this same problem.