diff --git a/.github/workflows/vale-docs-linter.yml b/.github/workflows/vale-docs-linter.yml
index ea36c75d34..048e24e94a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/vale-docs-linter.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/vale-docs-linter.yml
@@ -10,28 +10,33 @@ jobs:
       - name: check out repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
-          fetch-depth: 2
+          # changed-files needs the commit where this branch split from main to
+          # work out what the PR changed. A shallow checkout usually doesn't
+          # reach it, so the step logged "Unable to find merge base" and fell
+          # back to a cruder comparison. See docs-tracking#377.
+          fetch-depth: 0
 
       - name: get changed files
         id: changed-files
 
         uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v46.0.5
         with:
-          fetch_depth: 2
+          # Emit the list as a JSON array, which is the one shape vale-action
+          # parses without a separator. escape_json defaults to true, which
+          # backslash-escapes the quotes and makes the array unparseable.
+          json: true
+          escape_json: false
 
         # run reviewdog and the linter
       - name: run reviewdog and linter
         uses: errata-ai/vale-action@reviewdog
         with:
-          # tj-actions/changed-files emits a space-separated list, so telling the
-          # action it is comma-separated made it pass Vale one argument holding
-          # every path joined by spaces. That is a valid path only when a PR
-          # changed exactly one file, so from 2023 this check worked on
-          # single-file PRs and silently skipped every larger one: Vale answers
-          # an unmatched path with an empty result and exit 0. See
-          # docs-tracking#375.
+          # vale-action reads this input one of three ways: a single existing
+          # path, a JSON array, or a string split on 'separator'. It trims
+          # 'separator', so a space can't be passed that way, and an unparseable
+          # value makes it lint the whole repo instead. A JSON array is the only
+          # shape that reliably means "these files". See docs-tracking#375.
           files: ${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.all_changed_and_modified_files }}
-          separator: " "
           # added, diff_context, file, nofilter
           filter_mode: file
           # github-pr-check, github-pr-review, github-check
diff --git a/litefs/how-it-works.mdx b/litefs/how-it-works.mdx
index 6865a419fb..61b2baa492 100644
--- a/litefs/how-it-works.mdx
+++ b/litefs/how-it-works.mdx
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ extensive consistency checking to ensure correctness.
 
 By applying these page sets in the LTX files in order, we can reconstruct the
 state of our SQLite database at any point in time. We can also copy them to
-another nodes in order to replicate the changes in real-time to our cluster.
+other nodes to replicate the changes in real time to our cluster.
 
 
 ### Rollback journal handling