Cleanup: allow analysis of merge commits (#730)

Follows updates to CodeQL integration guidance per github/codeql-action#297

.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml

@@ -31,15 +31,6 @@ jobs:
     steps:
     - name: Checkout repository
       uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      with:
-        # We must fetch at least the immediate parents so that if this is
-        # a pull request then we can checkout the head.
-        fetch-depth: 2
-
-    # If this run was triggered by a pull request event, then checkout
-    # the head of the pull request instead of the merge commit.
-    - run: git checkout HEAD^2
-      if: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
 
     # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
     - name: Initialize CodeQL