Commitlint job failing when out of date with main branch

👓 What did you see?

Even though having no commitlint violations, commitlint CI job failing when not up to date with the main branch

✅ What did you expect to see?

The job to pass when no commitlint violations are found

💻 Where does this happen?

GitLab CI, only when creating a merge request

🔬 How do I recreate this?

1. Start a new branch from out of date main branch
2. Add a new commit with valid commit message
3. Push to remote and create a (draft) MR
4. See commitlint job failing

📚 Any additional information?

Discussed:

• !18 (comment 711303)