From 36baa2673f8e899d47884bdc4ff95fb1fd747b86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Knott <info@simonknott.de>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:53:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(only-changed): show nice error message about shallow
 clones

---
 packages/playwright/src/runner/vcs.ts | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/packages/playwright/src/runner/vcs.ts b/packages/playwright/src/runner/vcs.ts
index 3e5fcfc4e3..6ee321b732 100644
--- a/packages/playwright/src/runner/vcs.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright/src/runner/vcs.ts
@@ -27,6 +27,20 @@ export async function detectChangedTestFiles(baseCommit: string, configDir: stri
       ).split('\n').filter(Boolean);
     } catch (_error) {
       const error = _error as childProcess.SpawnSyncReturns<string>;
+
+      const unknownRevision = error.output.some(line => line?.includes('unknown revision'));
+      if (unknownRevision) {
+        const isShallowClone = childProcess.execSync('git rev-parse --is-shallow-repository', { encoding: 'utf-8',  stdio: 'pipe' }).trim() === 'true';
+        if (isShallowClone) {
+          throw new Error([
+            `Revision '${baseCommit}' is not available in the local repository.`,
+            `On CI, this is likely caused by a shallow clone.`,
+            `To fix, clone the full repository history:`,
+            '   https://github.com/actions/checkout#fetch-all-history-for-all-tags-and-branches'
+          ].join('\n'));
+        }
+      }
+
       throw new Error([
         `Cannot detect changed files for --only-changed mode:`,
         `git ${command}`,