diff --git a/packages/playwright/src/runner/tasks.ts b/packages/playwright/src/runner/tasks.ts
index d50bb91229..624b6e1d9f 100644
--- a/packages/playwright/src/runner/tasks.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright/src/runner/tasks.ts
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ import type { Matcher } from '../util';
 import { Suite } from '../common/test';
 import { buildDependentProjects, buildTeardownToSetupsMap, filterProjects } from './projectUtils';
 import { FailureTracker } from './failureTracker';
-import { detectChangedFiles } from './vcs';
+import { detectChangedTests } from './vcs';
 
 const readDirAsync = promisify(fs.readdir);
 
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ function createLoadTask(mode: 'out-of-process' | 'in-process', options: { filter
       if (testRun.config.cliOnlyChanged && options.filterOnlyChanged) {
         for (const plugin of testRun.config.plugins)
           await plugin.instance?.populateDependencies?.();
-        const changedFiles = await detectChangedFiles(testRun.config.cliOnlyChanged, testRun.config.configDir);
+        const changedFiles = await detectChangedTests(testRun.config.cliOnlyChanged, testRun.config.configDir);
         cliOnlyChangedMatcher = file => changedFiles.has(file);
       }
 
diff --git a/packages/playwright/src/runner/vcs.ts b/packages/playwright/src/runner/vcs.ts
index d0dd038c44..160ca60840 100644
--- a/packages/playwright/src/runner/vcs.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright/src/runner/vcs.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import childProcess from 'child_process';
 import { affectedTestFiles } from '../transform/compilationCache';
 import path from 'path';
 
-export async function detectChangedFiles(baseCommit: string, configDir: string): Promise<Set<string>> {
+export async function detectChangedTests(baseCommit: string, configDir: string): Promise<Set<string>> {
   function gitFileList(command: string) {
     try {
       return childProcess.execSync(
@@ -41,11 +41,5 @@ export async function detectChangedFiles(baseCommit: string, configDir: string):
   const [gitRoot] = gitFileList('rev-parse --show-toplevel');
   const trackedFilesWithChanges = gitFileList(`diff ${baseCommit} --name-only`).map(file => path.join(gitRoot, file));
 
-  const filesWithChanges = [...untrackedFiles, ...trackedFilesWithChanges];
-  const affectedFiles = affectedTestFiles(filesWithChanges);
-
-  return new Set([
-    ...filesWithChanges,
-    ...affectedFiles,
-  ]);
+  return new Set(affectedTestFiles([...untrackedFiles, ...trackedFilesWithChanges]));
 }
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