Git · Senior · Question 65 of 76

Why might CI on a shallow clone compute the wrong set of changed files?

✓Correct answer: The merge base with main may be missing from the history
2CI servers block git diff on shallow repositories
3Shallow clones contain no files at all

Explanation

Diffing a PR against main needs their common ancestor. Fetch enough depth (or the base branch) before computing affected packages.

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