Gitlab CI when never

Question

I saw this code on one of the pipelines of my company.

rules:
- if: 'SOME-CONDITION'
  when: manual
- when: never
variables:
...

According to gitlab ci documentation, the when:never field should be used with a condition, to basically tell the pipeline to not add the job if that condition is satisfied. I don't understand its use by itself in the end of the rules. What does it add and how the pipeline will behave without it ?

Answer 1

I think that at the end of the rules block the line when: never tells that the pipeline should not be run in any other cases. Because by default it runs after each commit in any created MR.