Deployment results in "No changes detected in base directory. Returning early from build."

[hrishikesh]

Hey @iechoi,

This might help:

Auto publish from Gitlab not working

you are seeing a different problem @I_Seth - in your logs you see the line Canceled build due to no content change which is the issue - we don’t see any changes within your base directory since the last commit, so our system tries to “save you” some probably unneeded build minutes (cf [Support Guide] How can I optimize my Netlify build time?). This of course is not helpful to you - you DO have changes you want to publish, I understand! To work around this “our build robots outsmarted themselve…