I don't know if this is specific to my pull request but on PR #2558 I'm seeing:
fatal: Invalid symmetric difference expression 49f6449ef4b81537c19b82329caaf60596c516c2...7b634956246bc6112a16ba11ff9f721342e750e6 <>Only docs were updated, stopping build process.
The build is subsequently marked as green. This is invalid, there were code changes in the pull request.
The Travis CI config runs the command:
git diff --name-only 49f6449ef4b81537c19b82329caaf60596c516c2...d0c822cded495409b68432fa10f9573417ca1fb7
Git fails with "fatal: Invalid symmetric difference expression (...)" if it doesn't know one or both sha1.
The first problem is that 49f6449ef4b81537c19b82329caaf60596c516c2 is "old" (Date: Sun Jul 16 07:29:16 2017), whereas Travis CI only gets the 50 latest commits:
git clone --depth=50 https://github.com/python/cpython.git python/cpython
I tested: 50 is not enough to get this commit.
haypo@selma$ git clone --depth=50 https://github.com/python/cpython.git python/cpython haypo@selma$ cd python/cpython/ haypo@selma$ git show 49f6449ef4b81537c19b82329caaf60596c516c2 fatal: bad object 49f6449ef4b81537c19b82329caaf60596c516c2
If "git diff" fails, we should simply run all tests.
Victor