Analyze source & test dependencies to figure out which tests to run (first)

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Just trying out AVA instead of Jest in a new monorepo project. I am configuring testing to be run as a pre-commit hook using `husky` and `lint-staged`.

I've run into a problem getting the appropriate tests run by `ava` during a commit. Previously, I would use `lint-staged` which would pass the changed files as arguments to `jest` and using the `--findRelatedTests` flag, jest would run only the tests that covered those files.

Trying to do something similar with `ava` has left me at a dead-end. If I try to use `lint-staged` to run `ava`, it passes a list of changed files and `ava` tries to run them as tests which fails. The alternative is simply to run the entire test suite, which will become inefficient as the project grows.

Any thing I'm missing, or thoughts on how to run appropriate `ava` tests as part of a pre-commit process?

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The issue does not name specific files or tests. Start by reviewing AVA's existing command-line test selection and compare it with Jest's --findRelatedTests behavior, then inspect how husky and lint-staged pass changed files. Done means changed source files trigger only their relevant tests, rather than being treated as test files, with coverage for the dependency-analysis behavior.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.