Summary & Motivation

The developer CLI's format command silently converted full local clones into shallow clones. GitHelper.GetChangedCsFilesInDirectory ran git fetch origin main --depth=1 before computing the changed-.cs diff, with the stated goal of supporting shallow CI checkouts. Against a full clone, that fetch creates .git/shallow containing the tip of origin/main — truncating main's reachable history to a single commit on the developer's machine. The change is silent and only becomes visible later when a Git GUI renders main as disconnected from its own history. Recovery requires git fetch --unshallow, which is not discoverable.

Auditing the workflows that actually call format (code-style.yml, account.yml, main.yml), every one of them already checks out with fetch-depth: 0. The shallow workaround is dead code in every environment in which it runs — it cannot help CI (CI is already full) and only harms local developers. If a future workflow ever needs to run format against a shallow checkout, the right place to fix that is at the checkout step, not in GitHelper.

The depth-1 fetch is removed outright and the inline comment rewritten to make the new contract explicit: the method relies on the caller's environment to keep origin/main reasonably current.

Checklist

• I have added tests, or done manual regression tests
• I have updated the documentation, if necessary