Hi all Does anyone know how to get the pants ` changed since Pants #general

Hi all - Does anyone know how to get the pants `--...

melodic-carpenter-39613

02/15/2023, 2:25 PM

Hi all - Does anyone know how to get the pants

--changed-since

flag to work with a Github Action triggered by a Pull Request? I keep encountering issues such as "fatal origin/stage...HEAD: no merge base" , but don't know how to correct the issue. Can anyone help me? 🙏🤞

pants_yaml.yaml

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melodic-carpenter-39613

02/15/2023, 2:27 PM

Here is the corresponding error message in the GitHub action run:

enough-analyst-54434

02/15/2023, 2:40 PM

You've missed reading up on fetch depth and its default here I think: https://github.com/actions/checkout

melodic-carpenter-39613

02/15/2023, 2:51 PM

Thanks John, that did the trick 🚀 I had previously tried two checkout steps (one for the PR commit and one for the

github.base_ref

to shy away from a potentially very time-consuming and expensive checkout step) but that didn't solve it so thought it might be something else. You once again saved me from hours of nightmarish debugging!

melodic-carpenter-39613

02/15/2023, 2:53 PM

For posterity (if someone else comes across this thread), the solution was to change the checkout action to:

Copy code

- uses: actions/checkout@v3
  with:
    fetch-depth: 0  # NOTE: needed for pants --changed-since flag

melodic-carpenter-39613

02/15/2023, 3:05 PM

@enough-analyst-54434 - I managed to get past the `Check BUILD files`step, but I now have a different issue on the next step with the error: "You used
--changed-since
at the same time as using glob arguments..." Does this mean that I can't use

::

as the

./pants test

target?

enough-analyst-54434

02/15/2023, 3:08 PM

Correct. Picture the mutex as so:

--changed-since

calculates the relevant changed file set and passes all those files in place of the

::

glob.

enough-analyst-54434

02/15/2023, 3:09 PM

You can see this - sort of - with

./pants --changed-since... list

. That list of targets is what Pants acts on internally.

enough-analyst-54434

02/15/2023, 3:11 PM

And debugging is your friend. The more you do it, the less you'll have to do it. It'll teach you things that help you avoid it in the future. Me feeding you an answer may have been short term helpful but it was long term harmful. Dig long and prosper!

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