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fix(web): let the Vercel ignore step see the previous deployment - #13947
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Vercel builds from a shallow clone. main lands commits faster than that clone is deep, so `VERCEL_GIT_PREVIOUS_SHA` is normally not in it, the reachability guard treats the gap as unknown history, and the build runs no matter what changed. Of the last 36 production deployments, 34 were for commits that touched no web build input and 16 of those built and deployed in full. Fetch that one commit before giving up. `git diff` needs both trees, not a connected history, so a second depth-1 graft is enough. If the fetch fails the build still runs, which is what happens today. The existing tests all used a full local repository, which is why this went unnoticed; the new ones clone shallowly first and fail without the fetch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe ignore-build script now attempts to fetch a previous deployment commit that is missing from the local repository. Tests cover shallow-clone cases where the commit can be fetched or remains unavailable. ChangesIgnore-build handling
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Script as vercel-ignore-build.sh
participant Local as Local Git repository
participant Origin
Script->>Local: Check previous SHA reachability
Local-->>Script: SHA is unavailable
Script->>Origin: Fetch previous SHA with depth 1
Origin-->>Local: Commit data or fetch failure
Script->>Local: Check previous SHA reachability again
Local-->>Script: Reachable or still unavailable
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Answering my own open question from the description — Vercel's docs settle it, no dashboard access needed. From Project settings → Ignored Build Step:
Same page, worth knowing before anyone counts the savings:
So this saves build compute and concurrent build slots, not deployment quota. That splits the problem in two, and only the first half is fixable in this repo:
One thing I still cannot settle, and it decides whether this PR works at all: #12610 claims A single build log showing whether — NightPetrel g1 🪁 |
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In `@web/tests/vercel-ignore-build.test.ts`:
- Line 211: Remove the explicit 30000-millisecond timeout from the affected
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Remove the fixed test deadlines.
The 30000 deadline can fail a correct test when a shared CI runner is slow. These tests already wait for each synchronous Git command to complete. Use the test framework default, or add a completion-based condition if the test becomes asynchronous. As per coding guidelines: “A test must not depend on real wall-clock time” and “A correctness test waits ON a real completion signal.”
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In `@web/tests/vercel-ignore-build.test.ts` at line 211, Remove the explicit
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The ignore step decides everything from Git history, so excluding .git defeats it outright if Vercel applies these rules before running the command. Whether it does is not documented either way for Git-integration deployments, and the two candidate causes are not exclusive, so cover both: the fetch handles a shallow clone, this handles a stripped .git. Guard it with the repository's real rules rather than a fixture, since a fixture always retains Git and would never catch the regression. Taken from #12610, which diagnosed this half. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Added the second half, taken from #12610. Why both. The two candidate causes are not exclusive and I cannot tell them apart from outside the Vercel dashboard:
Under either one the script cannot compare and builds every push, which is what the data shows. Fixing only one leaves it broken if the other is the real cause, and each fix is inert rather than harmful if its cause is not the live one. On the docs. Build features → Ignored files and folders lists What the deployment data actually shows. Every one of the 18 cancellations is a supersede-cancel — within each same-second push batch the newest deployment builds and the older ones cancel, with no exceptions in 36 samples. So the ignore step appears never to have skipped a single build, which is consistent with both causes and rules out "it works sometimes". The new guard uses the repository's real CI was green on the first commit (33 pass, 0 fail). — NightPetrel g1 🪁 |
Review follow-ups on this branch. Bound the fetch. Without GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 and a ceiling, a remote that stalls or asks for credentials holds the ignore step open for the whole build timeout with nothing on stdout. Every failure here, a missing `timeout` included, still falls through to running the build. Clean the shallow clones in afterEach. They were removed after the assertions, so a red test leaked a ~130 MB clone per run. State the .vercelignore reasoning honestly: the CLI strips .git from uploads regardless of this file, and whether Vercel applies it to the clone it builds from is undocumented. That entry is insurance, not a proven fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Independent agent review of Cleared. There is exactly one Fixed.
Not taken: the reviewer flagged that "still builds when the previous deployment cannot be fetched at all" passes with and without the fetch, so it is not a regression test. That is correct — it locks down pre-existing safe-failure behaviour, which is worth keeping. The two tests that carry the claim both fail on reverted source. One number corrected. I had reported "34 of 36 deployments touched no web build input, 16 of those built in full" — measured per commit, which is not what the script compares. Against the cumulative window since the last successful deployment, which is what The reviewer also confirmed no deployment-size or security regression: for git-integration builds Vercel does the clone itself so this file cannot shrink it, and the CLI path still strips — NightPetrel g1 🪁 |
eae58a7 test(simulator): bound the panel waits by a deadline, not a yield count (manaflow-ai#13907) 3df9a41 ci: let the pull-request macOS lane move pools without breaking Xcode selection (manaflow-ai#13923) a9bdaa8 Add edge fade to Files filter chips (manaflow-ai#13584) 270d970 fix(web): let the Vercel ignore step see the previous deployment (manaflow-ai#13947) 2ae26d1 ci: put the E2E test job's DerivedData under RUNNER_TEMP (manaflow-ai#13943) # Conflicts: # .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml # .github/workflows/ci.yml # .github/workflows/cli-pipe-regressions.yml # .github/workflows/nightly.yml # .github/workflows/persistent-macos-compile.yml # .github/workflows/test-e2e.yml
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Picks up the Vercel half of #12610, which has been untouched since 05:28.
What is wrong
web/vercel.jsonrunstools/vercel-ignore-build.shas the Ignored Build Step. It comparesVERCEL_GIT_PREVIOUS_SHAagainst the commit being built and skips the build when nothing underweb/changed. It almost never skips, because Vercel builds from a shallow clone andmainlands commits faster than that clone is deep — so the previously deployed commit is not in it, the reachability guard treats the gap as unknown history, and the script builds defensively.Reproduced without needing Vercel access:
Zero web build inputs changed across that range.
What it costs
Last 36 production deployments:
So roughly one wasted production Next.js build and deploy per two main commits.
The fix
Fetch the one missing commit before giving up.
git diffcompares two trees and does not need a connected history between them, so a second depth-1 graft is enough:Verified against the real remote from a
--depth=10clone: GitHub serves the arbitrary reachable SHA, the fetch takes under a second, and the subsequentgit diffgives the same answer as a full clone.Fail-safe: if the fetch fails for any reason — no credentials in the build container, network, a SHA no remote has — the script still exits 1 and the build runs, exactly as today. This change can only turn "could not compare, so build" into "compared, so decide".
Tests
The existing tests all used a full local repository, which is why this shipped. Two new ones clone shallowly first. Confirmed they are real regression tests: with the script reverted,
recovers the previous deployment from outside a shallow clonefails; with the fix, 7 pass / 0 fail.What I could not verify, and why this should not merge yet
My Vercel login has no
manaflowscope, so I cannot read a build log to confirm the in-container reason, and more importantly:A cancelled deployment reports
Vercel – cmux: FAILUREon its commit. That is already most of whymainlooks red — 15 of the 18 cancellations above are supersede-cancels within a single push batch. If Vercel reports an ignored build the same way it reports a cancelled one, then making the skip work would convert ~16 currently-green deployments into red checks: cheaper, but noisier. If it reports ignored builds as neutral/skipped, this is a straight win.I cannot tell those two apart from outside the Vercel dashboard. Someone with
manaflowaccess should check one ignored build's reported status before this lands.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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Fixes the Vercel ignored-build step so shallow clones can find the previous deployment and skip builds when nothing under
web/changed. Previously, a missing previous SHA caused every build to run; failed fetches still fall back to that behavior..gitin.vercelignore; this is insurance because Vercel’s handling of the file is undocumented and its CLI may strip.gitseparately..vercelignoreregression tests with cleanup for temporary clones.Written for commit 4776f4c. Summary will update on new commits.
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