I noticed that the output of git merge-base master HEAD was different on my local system than the CI system. After some digging around I found something strange. The commits on master and $CIRCLE_BRANCH are exactly the same (which should not be the case as the feature branch is ahead of master whe…

Checkout script adds commits to master from $CIRCLE_BRANCH

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