bpo-40548: Fix "Check for source changes (pull_request)" GH Action job (GH-21806) (GH-92342)

On Git 2.28, "git diff master..." (3 dots) no longer works when
"fetch --depth=1" is used, whereas it works on Git 2.26.

Replace "..." (3 dots) with ".." (2 dots) in the "git diff" command
computing the list of modified files between the base branch and the
PR branch.
(cherry picked from commit eaa5517)

Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <[email protected]>

Author: miss-islington

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -26,8 +26,21 @@ jobs:
           if [ -z "$GITHUB_BASE_REF" ]; then
             echo '::set-output name=run_tests::true'
           else
-            git fetch origin $GITHUB_BASE_REF
-            git diff --name-only origin/$GITHUB_BASE_REF... | grep -qvE '(\.rst$|^Doc|^Misc)' && echo '::set-output name=run_tests::true' || true
+            git fetch origin $GITHUB_BASE_REF --depth=1
+            # git diff "origin/$GITHUB_BASE_REF..." (3 dots) may be more
+            # reliable than git diff "origin/$GITHUB_BASE_REF.." (2 dots),
+            # but it requires to download more commits (this job uses
+            # "git fetch --depth=1").
+            #
+            # git diff "origin/$GITHUB_BASE_REF..." (3 dots) works with Git
+            # 2.26, but Git 2.28 is stricter and fails with "no merge base".
+            #
+            # git diff "origin/$GITHUB_BASE_REF.." (2 dots) should be enough on
+            # GitHub, since GitHub starts by merging origin/$GITHUB_BASE_REF
+            # into the PR branch anyway.
+            #
+            # https://github.com/python/core-workflow/issues/373
+            git diff --name-only origin/$GITHUB_BASE_REF.. | grep -qvE '(\.rst$|^Doc|^Misc)' && echo '::set-output name=run_tests::true' || true
           fi
 
   check_abi: