SonarCloud Incorrectly Detecting Unchanged Files as New Code

SonarQube Cloud
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Hello Sonar Community,

We are facing some issues with SonarCloud. Our development team has encountered an issue where SonarCloud is incorrectly detecting unchanged files and code as new code during analysis.

These files have not been modified since the last scan, yet they are being flagged as new, which is affecting our quality gate metrics and introducing unnecessary noise in our reports.

We have verified that the affected files have not been altered, and their timestamps remain unchanged. This issue appears to have started on February 3rd, whereas SonarQube was functioning correctly before that date.

Issue Details:

Expected Behavior: Only files with actual modifications should be detected as new code.
Actual Behavior: Unchanged files and code are incorrectly flagged as new.

Any help or guidance will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Arpit

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Hi Arpit,

Welcome to the community!

This sounds like a problem with the detection of new code. That’s done based on SCM metadata. You need to make sure the prerequisites are in place.

 
HTH,
Ann