SonarQube Community has no branch analysis. Every scan published under a project key replaces that project's single analysis, whatever revision it came from — so each pull request, and each push to one, overwrote the dashboard's analysis of main with the branch. The new-code period, the gate result, the coverage percentages and the hotspot list then all described whatever was scanned last, with nothing on the dashboard saying which revision that was. A gate that went green on a feature branch read exactly like a gate that went green on main.
It was caught only by luck: #180's hotspots reported line numbers that landed on a comment and a blank line in main, which is the kind of nonsense a person notices. Everything else it misreported would have looked fine.
scripts/scan-local.sh has always refused to do this, defaulting to a scratch key, and its header says why in as many words. CI walked into the hazard that script guards against. Now the two tell the same story.
The suites still run on pull requests, which is where their value is — only publishing is restricted. The measures report is skipped alongside the scan, because with nothing published it would print main's numbers into a pull request's log, which is noise at best and misread as the branch's own at worst.
A test asserts both steps carry the restriction and that the three suites do not, because the failure leaves no trace and the `if:` is one line for somebody to drop.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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