Recheck failed checks on new commits?

[magnattic]

The following scenario:

I change file A in my PR, which triggers workflow run check_A. The check fails.

I now add a new commit, changing file B. This triggers check_B which succeeds.

I would expect that

• Github still shows me that check_A failed earlier or
• Github would retry check_A to make sure it works now.

None of this happens, it only shows check_B which is green and I can happily merge, even though check_A is still not fixed.

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How do other teams solve this?

The obvoius solution seems to be to always run check_A, even when file B changes. But that seems unnecessarily expensive, if file B has no relation to check_A. It would make more sense to me to still show the check as failed in the PR until I change something that triggers check_A again.