Version Control n8n Workflows in GitLab with Customer Tag Organization

How it works

• Triggers manually or on schedule (03:00 daily by default)
• Fetches workflows tagged backup-workflows via n8n API
• Normalizes workflow names and applies [client: NAME] tag convention
• Prepares JSON in the same structure as an n8n UI export
• Checks GitLab repository:
  • Create new file if missing
  • Update file if content differs
  • Skip if unchanged
• Logs results with recap (created, updated, unchanged, total)

Set up steps

• Configure your GitLab credentials in n8n
• Create a repository and branch for workflow backups
• Set global variables (owner, project, branch, backup path)
• Tag workflows to include with backup-workflows
• Run manually once to test, then enable the schedule