SonarQube Analysis for updated code

[xbourguignon (Xavier Bourguignon)]

Hi Hugo,

What you describe is an “incremental analysis mode”, we did some experiments and our conclusions are well summarized by @NicoB in this thread:

Performance guide for large project analysis

The risks are higher than the (potential) gains. The output of the analysis is not only a factor of the code itself, it also depends on which rules are enabled in the Quality Profile, what are the analysis settings etc etc. Even if code doesn’t change, then the analysis report can greatly vary if rules/settings/parameters were modified. Also never forget that even if a file did not change, there could still be a new issue in that file: think of a function now deprecated in fileA , if fileB use…