fix: check what a pull request actually contains, and pin commit-check 2.17.0

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What

Six fixes from the cross-repository review and its end-to-end self-test, one commit each, each with tests. Four of them are cases where a pull request run reported green without having checked what the workflow author thought it checked.

1. commit-check==2.17.0. The 2.16.0 pin never emits status: warn, so the warn rendering from feat: render a warned rule as a warning, not a failure #276 was inert. A test now asserts the installed version is at least 2.17.0 so the pin cannot lag a feature again.
2. A shallow clone no longer turns a pull request green silently. With fetch-depth: 1 the PR's commits cannot be listed and the action fell back to HEAD, GitHub's Merge X into Y commit, which passes CC001 by default. It still checks HEAD but now emits ::warning title=commit-check::Could not list the pull request's commits (is actions/checkout using fetch-depth: 0?); only HEAD was checked. The README comment on fetch-depth: 0 says what actually breaks without it.
3. Author checks in a pull request read the branch tip. On refs/pull/N/merge HEAD's author is GitHub <noreply@github.com>, so author-email patterns failed every PR and everyone else checked nobody. The author scopes now pass --rev <pull_request.head.sha> from the event payload, which is right for pull_request and pull_request_target alike; on a pull_request checkout HEAD^2 is the fallback. When neither commit is in the clone, the author scopes are reported as skipped with a warning rather than run on HEAD, whose author is never the contributor.
4. The pull request's commits are listed from the event payload. pull_request.base.sha..pull_request.head.sha is tried first; HEAD^1..HEAD^2 is the fallback on a pull_request checkout only. On pull_request_target HEAD is the base branch, and when its tip was itself a merge commit that range listed some unrelated branch's commits as the PR's, with no warning. The shallow-clone hint now names the right fix per event (a deeper fetch, or checking the pull request out at all).
5. pr-comments: true on a push event is skipped quietly instead of producing ::warning::Unable to post PR comment: Unable to determine PR number on every run.
6. dry-run reports failures as ::warning (no ::error on a step that exits 0) and prints commit-check (dry-run): N of M checks failed; not failing the job. The input description in action.yml and the README is rewritten.

Also included

The branch still carried 192d6f7 (fix: report a warning even when its scope also fails), pushed two minutes after #276 was squash-merged and never merged itself. It is brought in through a merge commit rather than dropped, so this PR ships that fix too.

Verified end to end

Run with the real main.py, real git repositories and the real 2.17.0 CLI (no mocks): a full refs/pull/N/merge checkout, a --depth 1 clone of it, and pull_request_target checkouts with the PR head fetched and not fetched (base tip a merge commit). Each produces the expected commits, author values, warnings, skips and exit codes.

Behaviour changes

• Shallow-clone PR runs carry a warning annotation instead of a silent pass.
• In PR events author-name / author-email validate the PR branch tip's author, or are reported as skipped when the clone does not hold it.
• pull_request_target runs never read HEAD^2.
• Push runs with pr-comments: true no longer produce a warning annotation.
• dry-run shows warning annotations and a verdict line.

158 tests pass; pre-commit (black, mypy, codespell) clean.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The action now detects shallow PR checkouts, checks author data against the PR branch tip, reports dry-run failures as warnings, preserves mixed failure and warning results, and skips PR comment lookups for non-PR events. Documentation and the commit-check pin were updated.

Changes

PR checks and reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shallow PR revision checks main.py, main_test.py, README.md, requirements.txt	PR checks resolve HEAD^2, warn when shallow history prevents commit enumeration, and pass the branch revision to author checks. Tests cover shallow and push events. The commit-check pin updates to 2.17.0.
Dry-run and mixed-result rendering main.py, main_test.py, README.md, action.yml	Dry-run failures emit warnings and a failure summary. Scope reports render failures and warnings separately. Tests verify mixed results and dry-run output.
PR comment event handling main.py, main_test.py	Non-PR events skip PR comment lookup without warnings. Comment tests now provide the PR event context.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8f55a

Author rules may validate the wrong commit on pull_request_target workflows, allowing invalid PR authors or rejecting valid ones. The PR should resolve and test the actual PR head before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHubPR
  participant run_commit_check
  participant pr_head_rev
  participant Git
  participant run_other_checks
  GitHubPR->>run_commit_check: start PR checks
  run_commit_check->>pr_head_rev: resolve HEAD^2
  pr_head_rev->>Git: verify HEAD^2
  Git-->>pr_head_rev: revision or no revision
  run_commit_check->>run_other_checks: run author checks with revision

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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 45.45% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 44 functions across 2 files. (3 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the two primary changes: improving pull request content validation and pinning commit-check to version 2.17.0.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 45.45% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 44 functions across 2 files. (3 skipped: 3 unsupported.)

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  ✔ PR title (fix: check what a pull request actually contains, and pin...)
  ✔ Commit 1/12 (feat: render a warned rule as a warning, not a failure)
  ✔ Commit 2/12 (fix: report a warning even when its scope also fails)
  ✔ Commit 3/12 (chore(deps): bump commit-check to 2.17.0 for the warn status)
  ✔ Commit 4/12 (fix: warn when a shallow clone hides the pull request's c...)
  ✔ Commit 5/12 (fix: check the PR author on HEAD^2, not GitHub's merge co...)
  ✔ Commit 6/12 (fix: skip the PR comment on push events without a warning)
  ✔ Commit 7/12 (fix: report dry-run failures as warnings with a verdict line)
  ✔ Commit 8/12 (chore: merge the remote branch's scope-warning fix)
  ✔ Commit 9/12 (fix: resolve the pull request head from the event, skip a...)
  ✔ Commit 10/12 (test: cover get_pr_head_sha without an event path)
  ✔ Commit 11/12 (fix: list the pull request's commits from the event, not ...)
  ✔ Commit 12/12 (test: cover the base sha reader and a failing git log)
Branch
  ✔ Branch (claude/submit-patch-commit-check-42ac3i)
Author
  ✔ Author name (Xianpeng Shen)
  ✔ Author email (xianpeng.shen@gmail.com)

commit-check 2.17.0 · Rules reference

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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 94.48%. Comparing base (1893d04) to head (6c3e640).
⚠️ Report is 1 commits behind head on main.

Additional details and impacted files

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+ Coverage   92.38%   94.48%   +2.10%     
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  Files           1        1              
  Lines         420      544     +124     
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+ Hits          388      514     +126     
+ Misses         32       30       -2     

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Inline comments:
In `@main.py`:
- Around line 441-442: Update run_commit_check() so pull_request_target uses the
event’s pull_request.head.sha, ensures that commit is available, and passes it
to the author checks instead of relying on pr_head_rev() and HEAD^2; skip
author-scope validation when the SHA is unavailable rather than falling back to
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