Description We have several issues with codecov trying to guess the base commit to compare against, so we decided to use the -N flag to tell it ourselves. I’ve seen several other people having the base report problem ( one , two , three ). All suggestions to fix this are using the -N flag… but we canno…

Hey y’all, just clarifying a couple things for this thread and all future readers. [image] 1.) We have a feature to manually pick parents of commits (docs) 2.) We do not have a feature to manually pick base of a PR. 3.) Codecov will always pick the base of the PR as where the branch happened (o…

Hi @rolgalan I apologize, there was some confusion about how -N works, including myself, so I’ve given out some bad information. The -N flag allows you to set the parent commit, not the base commit, as I believed. This means it’s not helpful in overriding our automatic PR base picking system. I b…

Hi @drazisil ! But the parent of what? What would be the purpose of setting a parent commit if is not to be used as the base report? :thinking: I understood exactly the same thing when read the documentation of the bash script. codecov/codecov-bash/blob/e06ebeaf72bab0bb22ab46215e6fa7cae85c7…

The parent of the commit being uploaded. I’m very fuzzy on the use case of this, myself, It’s apparently helpful in very large and complex high-speed pipelines where the commits may change faster then GitHub can keep up. I totally thought it was PR base picking :frowning: Will let you know if I fi…

Flag -N to set the base report does not work

Support Bug Fixes

scott February 14, 2020, 10:28pm 5

I also need this functionality and added it to the feature request section. Set base commit

Topic		Replies	Views
Set base commit Feature Requests	14	3046	February 16, 2021
Comparing report to a wrong commit causes "No report found to compare against" error Support github	4	1396	February 6, 2020
Selected base commit when PR is based on an older commit of the target branch Support	5	296	February 10, 2023
Nearest Pull Request Base/PseudoBase Commit not chosen correctly Bug Fixes	23	1617	September 14, 2021
Unable to determine a parent commit to compare against in base branch after Squash and Merge Support	20	2371	April 8, 2021

Flag -N to set the base report does not work

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