Add documentation about script flattening

doc/ci/yaml/README.md

@@ -181,6 +181,25 @@ that the YAML parser knows to interpret the whole thing as a string rather than
 a "key: value" pair. Be careful when using special characters:
 `:`, `{`, `}`, `[`, `]`, `,`, `&`, `*`, `#`, `?`, `|`, `-`, `<`, `>`, `=`, `!`, `%`, `@`, `` ` ``.
+#### YAML anchors for `script`
+
+> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/23005) in GitLab 12.5.
+
+You can use [YAML anchors](#anchors) with scripts, which makes it possible to
+include a predefined list of commands in multiple jobs.
+
+Example:
+
+```yaml
+.something: &something
+- echo 'something'
+
+job_name:
+  script:
+    - *something
+    - echo 'this is the script'
+```
+
 ### `image`
 Used to specify [a Docker image](../docker/using_docker_images.md#what-is-an-image) to use for the job.
@@ -284,6 +303,33 @@ job:
     - execute this after my script
 ```
+#### YAML anchors for `before_script` and `after_script`
+
+> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/23005) in GitLab 12.5.
+
+You can use [YAML anchors](#anchors) with `before_script` and `after_script`,
+which makes it possible to include a predefined list of commands in multiple
+jobs.
+
+Example:
+
+```yaml
+.something_before: &something_before
+- echo 'something before'
+
+.something_after: &something_after
+- echo 'something after'
+
+
+job_name:
+  before_script:
+    - *something_before
+  script:
+    - echo 'this is the script'
+  after_script:
+    - *something_after
+```
+
 ### `stages`
 `stages` is used to define stages that can be used by jobs and is defined