diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index cb5a2285c4fde4dce6222325451800542b892cfe..c38f56968aed1f151139f7f15990ec993d94057e 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -99,9 +99,6 @@ test:
     - echo "TMP_CPPLIB=${CPPLIB}" >> dotenv.env
     - echo "TMP_PYLIB=${PYLIB}" >> dotenv.env
     - echo "TMP_PYINT=${PYINT}" >> dotenv.env
-    - echo "TMP_TRIGGERED_BY_REPO=${TRIGGERED_BY_REPO}" >> dotenv.env
-    - echo "TMP_TRIGGERED_BY_HASH=${TRIGGERED_BY_HASH}" >> dotenv.env
-    - echo "TMP_TRIGGERED_BY_REF=${TRIGGERED_BY_REF}" >> dotenv.env
     - cat dotenv.env
   artifacts:
     reports:
@@ -116,6 +113,9 @@ trigger_inttest:
   inherit:
     variables:
       - DEPLOY_REF
+      - TRIGGERED_BY_REPO
+      - TRIGGERED_BY_REF
+      - TRIGGERED_BY_HASH
   variables:
     # Renaming variables.
     F_BRANCH: $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME
@@ -126,9 +126,6 @@ trigger_inttest:
     PYINT: $TMP_PYINT
     CPPINT: $TMP_CPPINT
     MYSQLBACKEND: $TMP_MYSQLBACKEND
-    TRIGGERED_BY_REPO: $TMP_TRIGGERED_BY_REPO
-    TRIGGERED_BY_REF: $TMP_TRIGGERED_BY_REF
-    TRIGGERED_BY_HASH: $TMP_TRIGGERED_BY_HASH
   trigger:
     project: caosdb/src/caosdb-deploy
     branch: $DEPLOY_REF