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feat: always include files from diff in overlay changed files#3554

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feat: always include files from diff in overlay changed files#3554
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Ensure that overlay changes always include all PR diff files used for diff-informed analysis.

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  • Low risk: Changes are fully under feature flags, or have been fully tested and validated in pre-production environments and are highly observable, or are documentation or test only.

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  • Managed - Impacts users with dynamic workflows (Default Setup, Code Quality, ...).

Products:

  • Code Scanning - The changes impact analyses when analysis-kinds: code-scanning.
  • Code Quality - The changes impact analyses when analysis-kinds: code-quality.

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  • Dotcom - Impacts CodeQL workflows on github.com and/or GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency.
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  • Unit tests - I am depending on unit test coverage (i.e. tests in .test.ts files).
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If something goes wrong after this change is released, what are the mitigation and rollback strategies?

  • Feature flags - All new or changed code paths can be fully disabled with corresponding feature flags.

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    • Dashboards - I will watch relevant dashboards for issues after the release. Consider whether this requires this change to be released at a particular time rather than as part of a regular release.
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  • Special considerations - This change should only be merged once certain preconditions are met. Please provide details of those or link to this PR from an internal issue.

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  • Confirm this change is backwards compatible with existing workflows.
  • Consider adding a changelog entry for this change.
  • Confirm the readme and docs have been updated if necessary.

@github-actions github-actions bot added the size/M Should be of average difficulty to review label Mar 6, 2026
@sam-robson sam-robson force-pushed the sam-robson/overlay-include-diff branch from ecde788 to d135b9c Compare March 6, 2026 16:11
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