STF-1604: Analyze the merge commit in CodeQL on pull requests

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The CodeQL init step warns on every run:

1 issue was detected with this workflow: git checkout HEAD^2 is no longer necessary. Please remove this step as Code Scanning recommends analyzing the merge commit for best results.

This removes the git checkout HEAD^2 step and the fetch-depth: 2 it needed. On pull requests, CodeQL now analyzes the merge commit that actions/checkout fetches by default. The init, autobuild, and analyze steps are unchanged.

This PR's own CodeQL run should show no warning in the "Initialize CodeQL" step.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Updated the automated code analysis workflow’s repository checkout behavior. No user-facing changes are included in this update.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The CodeQL workflow checkout step no longer sets an explicit fetch depth or checks out HEAD^2 for pull requests. It uses the checkout action’s default behavior.

Changes

CodeQL workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Use default checkout behavior .github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml	The checkout step removes the explicit fetch depth and pull-request-only checkout of HEAD^2.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 97036

This simplifies the CodeQL workflow so pull-request analysis uses the merge commit. No merge-blocking risk was identified.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: configuring CodeQL to analyze the merge commit on pull requests.

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No depth is set; defaults are there.
No HEAD^2 to seek or find,
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Copilot review overview

🟢 Approval recommended

The focused workflow change matches CodeQL guidance, and the updated initialization step completed successfully.

Review effort: Balanced
Findings: None

What changed in this PR

Updates CodeQL pull-request scans to analyze the default merge commit.

Changes:

• Removes the unnecessary shallow-history override and manual PR-head checkout.
• Preserves credential hardening and existing CodeQL steps.

File	Description
.github/​workflows/​codeql-analysis.yml	Uses the default checkout behavior for CodeQL analysis.

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