#!/usr/bin/env bash # scripts/ci-detect-docs-only.sh — emit `docs_only=true|false` to $GITHUB_OUTPUT for the # docker-build.yml heavy-job gate (ersatztv#416). A change is "docs" iff every changed path is # under docs/ or is a *.md file anywhere. docs_only=true ONLY when EVERY changed path is docs; # any code path, an undeterminable diff, a tag build, or a non-PR/push event => false (run the # full matrix). # # The bias is ALWAYS toward running MORE, never less: a false 'true' would skip the real # test/migrations/build work on a code change, so every ambiguous case resolves to # docs_only=false. It is fine (just wasteful) to run the full matrix on a docs change; it is a # correctness bug to skip it on a code change. # # Why this is the merge-gate-safe half of #416: the two REQUIRED contexts (`Build & test (.NET)`, # `EF migration integrity (SQLite + MySql)`) are gated by SKIPPING STEPS inside a job that always # runs and always reports `success` — never by an `if:`-skipped job. On Gitea 1.25.4 an # `if:`-skipped job reports commit-status state `skipped` (verified, PR #418; re-confirmed on # 1.27.1, 2026-08-28, ersatztv#747), and how branch # protection treats a `skipped` REQUIRED context is not something we rely on. Non-required jobs may # skip freely (production already proves a `skipped` non-required context — e.g. `build` on every # PR — does not block merge). # # Runs identically locally and in CI. Locally (no $GITHUB_OUTPUT) it prints the decision to stdout; # e.g. GITHUB_EVENT_NAME=pull_request GITHUB_BASE_REF=main scripts/ci-detect-docs-only.sh set -euo pipefail out="${GITHUB_OUTPUT:-/dev/stdout}" event="${GITHUB_EVENT_NAME:-}" emit() { echo "docs_only=$1" >> "$out" echo "-> docs_only=$1" } # NEVER PASS `--depth` TO A COMPLETE CLONE (ersatztv#836). `git fetch --depth=N` GRAFTS one shallow: # it writes `.git/shallow` and cuts history at N even though every object is already present. Both # fetch sites below go through this one function, because they differ only in N. # # THE CONSUMERS, enumerated rather than assumed — `grep -rn ci-detect-docs-only .gitea/` returns # exactly four call sites: `test`, `migrations` and `functional-e2e` (`fetch-depth: 2`, genuinely # shallow) and `build` (`fetch-depth: 0`, complete). `api-docs` and `format` also have a step with # `id: detect`, but it is their OWN inline diff, not this script. Enumerate by the grep above, never # by the step id — that is the trap, and it points at the wrong two jobs. (The grep returns five # hits: these four call sites plus docker-build.yml's own header comment.) # # `build` is therefore the only complete-clone consumer, and the push arm is the only arm it takes. # That is where the defect was: the depth grafted its clone on every push to `main`, so the # `git describe --tags` in the very next step ("Compute version and tags") found no reachable tag, # and every `:latest` image carried `InformationalVersion 0.0.0-` instead of `26.x.y-`. # # THE PR ARM'S `--depth=200` HAS NO COMPLETE-CLONE CONSUMER TODAY. On `pull_request` the only # consumers are the three `fetch-depth: 2` jobs, so that depth was inert, not latently firing. It is # dropped anyway because the clause is shared: the next `fetch-depth: 0` consumer added to this arm # would inherit the graft silently, and finding it again would cost what #836 cost. # # WHY THE DEPTH IS KEPT FOR SHALLOW CHECKOUTS, stated as measured rather than as load-bearing. A # depth-LESS fetch into a `--depth=2` clone leaves `.git/shallow` in place, still writes FETCH_HEAD, # and still lets `git rev-list --parents -n1 HEAD` report the parents the push arm reads — so # dropping the depth outright would not have broken those three jobs either. It is retained because # it is what they were given and nothing argues for widening their fetch, not because removing it # was shown to break anything. # # Measured on a real `file://` clone: complete -> `git describe --tags --abbrev=0` = `v26.3.1`; after # `git fetch --no-tags --depth=2` -> `.git/shallow` written, `fatal: No tags can describe`. # # ANY ANSWER BUT `true` PASSES NO DEPTH, and there is more than one such answer. `git rev-parse` # fails outright where there is no readable repository; on a git older than 2.15 the flag is not # recognised and rev-parse ECHOES IT BACK verbatim with status 0 (verified on 2.55: an unknown # `--is-...` flag prints itself and exits 0). Neither is `true`, both take the no-depth branch, and # in both a depth would have been useless anyway. Defaulting the other way would re-graft on exactly # the paths nobody can observe. fetch_ref() { # $1 = ref to fetch; $2 = depth to use ONLY IF this checkout is already shallow local is_shallow is_shallow="$(git rev-parse --is-shallow-repository 2>/dev/null || echo unknown)" if [ "$is_shallow" = "true" ]; then echo "checkout is shallow; fetching with --depth=$2 (ersatztv#836)" git fetch --no-tags "--depth=$2" origin "$1" 2>/dev/null else echo "checkout is not shallow (is-shallow=$is_shallow); fetching without --depth (ersatztv#836)" git fetch --no-tags origin "$1" 2>/dev/null fi } # A release tag must NEVER be treated as docs-only, whatever it touches. if [ "${GITHUB_REF_TYPE:-}" = "tag" ]; then echo "tag build (${GITHUB_REF_NAME:-?}); never docs-only" emit false exit 0 fi # Resolve a concrete BASE COMMIT to diff HEAD against. SHALLOW-CHECKOUT SAFE (ersatztv#416 # follow-up): the `test`/`migrations`/`functional-e2e` jobs check out shallow (`fetch-depth: 2`), and # a shallow clone has NO # `origin/` remote-tracking ref and no merge-base — so the old `origin/...HEAD` # (three-dot) errored, the diff came back empty, and EVERY docs-only PR silently ran the full # matrix (safe but useless). `git fetch` ALWAYS writes FETCH_HEAD (the fetched base tip), which # resolves even in a shallow clone; we diff against it with a TWO-dot tree diff below (no merge-base # required). Verified in a real shallow `file://` clone. (`api-docs`/`format` only worked because # they use `fetch-depth: 0`.) base_rev="" case "$event" in pull_request) base="${GITHUB_BASE_REF:-}" if [ -z "$base" ]; then echo "pull_request with no base ref; running full matrix (safe default)" emit false exit 0 fi if ! fetch_ref "$base" 200; then echo "fetch of base '$base' failed; running full matrix (safe default)" emit false exit 0 fi base_rev="$(git rev-parse --verify -q FETCH_HEAD || true)" ;; push) # Only branch pushes reach here (tags handled above). Skip only when the range is UNAMBIGUOUS — # HEAD is a merge commit: its first parent is the pre-merge tip, so HEAD^1 is the base. This is # NOT how most updates to main land: 91 of the last 100 `origin/main` commits have ONE parent # (measured 2026-08-29), so the arm below usually bails to the full matrix. Safe, and it means # the docs-only skip rarely fires on a push at all. # # `fetch_ref ... 2` asks for depth 2 so the first-parent tree exists in a SHALLOW checkout, and # for no depth at all in a complete one (see `fetch_ref`); if the base still can't be # resolved/diffed we fall through to the full matrix. A non-merge (direct/multi-commit) push is # ambiguous here -> full matrix. fetch_ref "${GITHUB_REF_NAME:-main}" 2 || true nfields="$(git rev-list --parents -n1 HEAD 2>/dev/null | wc -w | tr -d ' ')" # 1 (self) + parents if [ "${nfields:-0}" -ge 3 ]; then base_rev="$(git rev-parse --verify -q 'HEAD^1' || true)" else echo "non-merge push (parents=$(( nfields - 1 ))); running full matrix (safe default)" emit false exit 0 fi ;; *) echo "event '${event:-}' is not pull_request/push; running full matrix (safe default)" emit false exit 0 ;; esac if [ -z "$base_rev" ]; then echo "could not resolve a base revision (shallow/offline); running full matrix (safe default)" emit false exit 0 fi # TWO-dot tree diff `git diff HEAD` (NOT three-dot) so no merge-base is needed — that is what # makes this work in a shallow checkout. `--no-renames` is load-bearing: with rename detection ON # (git's default) a code->docs rename (e.g. Foo.cs -> docs/Foo.md) shows ONLY the destination # `docs/Foo.md`, hiding that a source file left the build -> misclassified as docs-only -> required # tests skipped on a code change. --no-renames surfaces the deletion (`Foo.cs`, non-docs) so it # correctly forces the full matrix, keeping the "any code path => run everything" invariant total. changed="$(git diff --no-renames --name-only "$base_rev" HEAD 2>/dev/null || true)" echo "Base: $base_rev (event=$event)" echo "Changed files:" printf '%s\n' "$changed" if [ -z "$changed" ]; then echo "empty/undeterminable diff; running full matrix (safe default)" emit false exit 0 fi # docs_only unless SOME changed path is NOT docs. "docs" = under docs/ OR ends in .md (anywhere: # README.md, CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, docs/handoffs/*.md, ...). Everything else — .cs, web/**, # .gitea/**, Dockerfiles, scripts, csproj — is a code change and forces the full matrix. # # Capture the non-docs lines and test for emptiness rather than `grep -qv`: the combination of # `-q` and `-v` early-exits inconsistently across grep implementations (BSD grep on macOS returned # the wrong exit code here). `|| true` guards `set -e` when grep matches nothing (exit 1). nondocs="$(printf '%s\n' "$changed" | grep -vE '(^docs/|\.md$)' || true)" if [ -n "$nondocs" ]; then echo "non-docs path(s) present in the diff -> NOT docs-only:" printf '%s\n' "$nondocs" | sed 's/^/ /' emit false else echo "every changed path is docs/ or *.md -> docs-only" emit true fi