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Bumps @currents/commit-info from 1.0.1-beta.0 to 1.1.0 (currents-dev/commit-info#9). On pull request builds, runs now record the pull request's last commit (sha, message, author, email) instead of the merge commit the CI provider checks out. A GitHub Actions pull_request run with the default actions/checkout shows the real commit message instead of "Merge into ". Users change nothing in their workflow.

What commit-info 1.1.0 does

  • Takes the pull request's sha from pull_request.head.sha in the GitHub event file, or from CI_MERGE_REQUEST_SOURCE_BRANCH_SHA (GitLab merged results), SYSTEM_PULLREQUEST_SOURCECOMMITID (Azure), TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST_SHA, SEMAPHORE_GIT_PR_SHA, BUILDKITE_PULL_REQUEST_HEAD_COMMIT or BITBUCKET_COMMIT.
  • Uses it only when the checked-out commit is a merge and that sha is one of its parents. This skips pull_request_target, merge queue builds and one-parent commits a build adds on top.
  • When a shallow clone lacks the commit, fetches it with git fetch --depth=1 --no-tags origin <sha> and a 3s timeout. A failed fetch keeps the merge commit and never fails the run.
  • CURRENTS_DISABLE_HEAD_COMMIT_FETCH=true skips the fetch. COMMIT_INFO_* variables still take priority, and COMMIT_INFO_SHA skips the lookup.

What changes in the run payload: commit.message, authorName and authorEmail on those builds. commit.sha was already replaced with the head sha by the director for GitHub Actions; for GitLab merged results, Azure and the others it now becomes the pull request's sha instead of the merge commit's.

Verification

  • commit-info#9 runs commitInfo on its own pull request checkouts from actions/checkout@v4: depth 1 (git 2.55), full clone, depth 1 with git 2.25 in mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.28.1-focal, and with the fetch turned off. All reported the expected commit. 39 unit tests pass.
  • 1.1.0 was published to latest by the commit-info "Publish NPM Package" workflow, with npm provenance. Its files match 1.1.0-beta.0 except for the version.
  • Ran the real getGitInfo from @currents/cmd, with the published package, on a simulated GitHub depth-1 merge checkout with an event file. It reported the pull request commit's sha, message, author and email, and HEAD did not change.
  • @currents/cmd: tsc --noEmit and the tsup build pass; vitest 151 passed. The first of eight local runs had one failing test I could not identify; the next seven passed.
  • package-lock.json also updates the @currents/cmd workspace entry from 1.10.0 to 1.11.0-beta.1, the version already in packages/cmd/package.json.

Not covered

  • Jenkins with the merge strategy: no head sha variable, and the pull request commit is the first parent.
  • Azure private repos: persistCredentials defaults to false, so the fetch fails and the merge commit is reported.

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Update @currents/cmd to use @currents/commit-info 1.1.0, so CI merge-checkout runs record the pull request’s head commit details while preserving existing overrides and fallback behavior. Remove the temporary GitHub Actions workflow workaround and refresh package versions and lockfile metadata.

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PR commit capture Replace the temporary workflow step with the @currents/commit-info integration so command-line uploads capture the pull request head commit instead of the CI merge commit.
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The @currents/cmd package updates its @currents/commit-info dependency from 1.1.0-beta.0 to 1.1.0. The unit-test workflow removes a pull-request-only step that fetched the PR head commit and set COMMIT_INFO_* values.

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Comment thread packages/cmd/src/env/pullRequestHeadCommit.ts Outdated
Bumps @currents/commit-info to 1.1.0-beta.0. On pull request builds where
CI checks out a merge commit (GitHub Actions refs/pull/N/merge, GitLab
merged results, Azure, Travis, Semaphore, Bitbucket, Buildkite merge
refspec), commitInfo now returns the pull request's last commit: sha,
message, author and email. In a depth-1 clone it fetches that commit with
a 3s timeout; a failed fetch keeps the merge commit.
CURRENTS_DISABLE_HEAD_COMMIT_FETCH=true skips the fetch, and COMMIT_INFO_*
variables still take priority.

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@agoldis agoldis changed the title fix: record the pull request's commit when CI checks out a merge commit fix: record the pull request's commit when CI checks out a merge commit [ENG-934] Sep 23, 2026
@currents/commit-info 1.1.0-beta.0 reads the pull request's commit on the
merge checkout itself, so the step that set COMMIT_INFO_* from the pull
request head is no longer needed. The Currents run from this workflow now
shows whether the CLI built from the pull request records the right
commit.

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🟡 Minor · Add a pull-request head SHA assertion to the upload test. · unit-test.yaml:22

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Add a pull-request head SHA assertion to the upload test.

The workflow now removes the COMMIT_INFO_* override and relies on @currents/commit-info@1.1.0. The upload test still discards commit, runs from a temporary report directory, and has no explicit PR event or checkout fixture. A merge-checkout SHA regression can pass.

Use the workflow’s GITHUB_EVENT_PATH and checkout, or a controlled equivalent with distinct merge and head SHAs. Do not set COMMIT_INFO_*. Assert that the uploaded commit.sha equals pull_request.head.sha.

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 type RunRequest = {
+  commit: { sha: string };
   group: string;
   framework: unknown;
   fullTestSuite: unknown[];
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     runRequests.push({
+      commit: request.commit,
       group: request.group,
       // Changes with every release of the CLI.
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In @.github/workflows/unit-test.yaml at line 22, Update the upload test to
provide a pull-request event fixture with distinct merge and head SHAs, then
assert the uploaded request’s commit.sha equals pull_request.head.sha. Preserve
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