# Project coverage drops -.1% and unable to pass the check

**URL:** <https://community.codecov.com/t/project-coverage-drops-1-and-unable-to-pass-the-check/104>\
**Category:** Bug Fixes\
**Created:** [April 9, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://community.codecov.com/t/project-coverage-drops-1-and-unable-to-pass-the-check/104 "2019-04-09T18:20:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![dangsd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dangsd](https://community.codecov.com/u/dangsd)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://community.codecov.com/t/project-coverage-drops-1-and-unable-to-pass-the-check/104/1 "2019-04-09T18:20:37Z")

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### Description

requently my codecov would say something like 85%(\<-0.1%) not thus not pass the check  
i tried to use use threshold to mitigate it but it didnt work out

default:  
#basic settings  
base: auto #branch, will use default branch in github  
target: auto #this means it is compared to the base branch. change to 75% to make absolute.  
threshold: .25 #this is the percent coverage can drop and still be considered a success build

### Repository

> **[Code coverage done right.](https://app.codecov.io/gh/StrideSpark/frontend/commit/d9aa9b2610e882b9660b4eeaa0a0d76b92aab15a)**
>
> Hosted coverage report highly integrated with GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab. Awesome pull request comments to enhance your QA.

### Steps to Reproduce

The root cause is codecov is saying coverage dropped for files didn’t get touched in the new PR.

**Expected behavior:** files didn’t get changed should not drop coverage

**Actual behavior:** coverage dropped for files didn’t get touched

**Flakiness?** only sometimes but I don’t know why it happens

### Versions

Running on CircleCI

### Additional Information

Any additional information, configuration or data that might be necessary to reproduce the issue.