changed-files

Retrieve all changed files relative to the target branch (pull_request* based events) or the last remote commit (push based event) returning the absolute path to all changed files from the project root.

Features

• Fast execution (0-2 seconds on average).
• Easy to debug.
• Boolean output indicating that certain files have been changed.
• Scales to large repositories.
• Git submodules support.
• Multiple repositories support.
• GitHub-hosted runners support
• GitHub Enterprise Server support.
• self-hosted runners support.
• Monorepos (Fetches only the last remote commit).
• Supports all platforms (Linux, MacOS, Windows).
• List all files that have changed.
  • Between the current pull request branch and the last commit on the target branch.
  • Between the current pull request branch and the fork point on the target branch.
  • Between the last commit and the current pushed change.
  • Between the last remote branch commit and the current HEAD.
• Restrict change detection to a subset of files.
  • Report on files that have at least one change.
  • Using Glob pattern matching.

Usage

NOTE: ⚠️

• IMPORTANT: For push events you need to include fetch-depth: 0 OR fetch-depth: 2 depending on your use case.
• When using persist-credentials: false with actions/checkout@v2 you'll need to specify a token using the token input.
• For monorepos where pulling all the branch history might not be desired, you can omit fetch-depth for pull_request events.
• For files located in a sub-directory ensure that the pattern specified contains **/ (globstar) to match any preceding directories or explicitly pass the full path relative to the project root. See: #314.

name: CI

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest  # windows-latest | macos-latest
    name: Test changed-files
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0  # OR "2" -> To retrieve the preceding commit.

      - name: Get changed files
        id: changed-files
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v19.1

      - name: List all changed files
        run: |
          for file in ${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.all_changed_files }}; do
            echo "$file was changed"
          done          

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Outputs

Acronym	Meaning
A	Added
C	Copied
M	Modified
D	Deleted
R	Renamed
T	Type changed
U	Unmerged
X	Unknown

Output	type	example	description
any_changed	string	true OR false	Returns true when any of the filenames provided using the files input has changed. i.e. using a combination of all added, copied, modified and renamed files (ACMR)
only_changed	string	true OR false	Returns true when only files provided using the files input has changed. (ACMR)
other_changed_files	string	'new.txt path/to/file.png ...'	Select all other changed files not listed in the files input i.e. a combination of all added, copied and modified files (ACMR)
any_modified	string	true OR false	Returns true when any of the filenames provided using the files input has been modified. i.e. using a combination of all added, copied, modified, renamed, and deleted files (ACMRD)
only_modified	string	true OR false	Returns true when only files provided using the files input has been modified. (ACMRD)
other_modified_files	string	'new.txt path/to/file.png ...'	Select all other modified files not listed in the files input i.e. a combination of all added, copied, modified, and deleted files (ACMRD)
any_deleted	string	true OR false	Returns true when any of the filenames provided using the files input has been deleted. (D)
only_deleted	string	true OR false	Returns true when only files provided using the files input has been deleted. (D)
other_deleted_files	string	'new.txt path/to/file.png ...'	Select all other deleted files not listed in the files input i.e. a combination of all deleted files (D)
all_changed_files	string	'new.txt path/to/file.png ...'	Select all changed files i.e. a combination of all added, copied, modified and renamed files (ACMR)
all_modified_files	string	'new.txt path/to/file.png ...'	Select all changed files i.e. a combination of all added, copied, modified, renamed and deleted files (ACMRD)
all_changed_and_modified_files	string	'new.txt path/to/file.png ...'	Select all changed and modified files i.e. a combination of (ACMRDTUX)
added_files	string	'new.txt path/to/file.png ...'	Select only files that are Added (A)
copied_files	string	'new.txt path/to/file.png ...'	Select only files that are Copied (C)
deleted_files	string	'new.txt path/to/file.png ...'	Select only files that are Deleted (D)
modified_files	string	'new.txt path/to/file.png ...'	Select only files that are Modified (M)
renamed_files	string	'new.txt path/to/file.png ...'	Select only files that are Renamed (R)
type_changed_files	string	'new.txt path/to/file.png ...'	Select only files that have their file type changed (T)
unmerged_files	string	'new.txt path/to/file.png ...'	Select only files that are Unmerged (U)
unknown_files	string	'new.txt path/to/file.png ...'	Select only files that are Unknown (X)

Inputs

Input	type	required	default	description
token	string	false	${{ github.token }}	GITHUB_TOKEN or a repo scoped Personal Access Token
separator	string	false	' '	Output string separator
files	string OR string[]	false		Check for changes using only these list of file(s) (Defaults to the entire repo)
files_separator	string	false	'\n'	Separator used to split the files input
files_from_source_file	string	false		Source file(s) used to populate the files input
files_ignore	string	false		Ignore changes to these file(s)
files_ignore_separator	string	false	'\n'	Separator used to split the files-ignore input
files_ignore_from_source_file	string	false		Source file(s) used to populate the files_ignore input
sha	string	true	${{ github.sha }}	Specify a different commit SHA used for comparing changes
base_sha	string	false		Specify a different base commit SHA used for comparing changes
path	string	false		Relative path under GITHUB_WORKSPACE to the repository
since_last_remote_commit	string	false	false	Use the last commit on the remote branch as the base_sha (Defaults to the last commit on the target branch for Pull requests or the previous commit on the current branch for push events). NOTE: This requires fetch-depth: 0 with actions/checkout@v2
use_fork_point	string	false	false	Finds best common ancestor between two commits to use in a three-way merge as the base_sha See: git merge-base. NOTE: This pulls the entire commit history of the base branch
quotepath	string	false	true	Output filenames completely verbatim by setting this to false

Example

...
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
#        with:
#          fetch-depth: 0  # OR "2" -> To retrieve the preceding commit.
#          submodules: true # OR "recursive" -> To include all changed submodule files.

      - name: Get changed files using defaults
        id: changed-files
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v19.1

      - name: Get changed files using a comma separator
        id: changed-files-comma
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v19.1
        with:
          separator: ","

      - name: List all added files
        run: |
          for file in ${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.added_files }}; do
            echo "$file was added"
          done          

      - name: Run step when a file changes
        if: contains(steps.changed-files.outputs.modified_files, 'my-file.txt')
        run: |
          echo "Your my-file.txt file has been modified."          

      - name: Run step when a file has been deleted
        if: contains(steps.changed-files.outputs.deleted_files, 'test.txt')
        run: |
          echo "Your test.txt file has been deleted."          

      - name: Get specific changed files
        id: changed-files-specific
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v19.1
        with:
          files: |
            my-file.txt
            test.txt
            new.txt
            test_directory
            *.sh
            *.png
            !*.md
            *.jpeg
            **/migrate-*.sql            
          files_ignore: |
            *.yml            

      - name: Run step if any of the listed files above change
        if: steps.changed-files-specific.outputs.any_changed == 'true'
        run: |
          echo "One or more files listed above has changed."          

      - name: Run step if only the files listed above change
        if: steps.changed-files-specific.outputs.only_changed == 'true'
        run: |
          echo "Only files listed above have changed."          

      - name: Run step if any of the listed files above is deleted
        if: steps.changed-files.outputs.any_deleted == 'true'
        run: |
          for file in ${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.deleted_files }}; do
            echo "$file was deleted"
          done          

      - name: Run step if all listed files above have been deleted
        if: steps.changed-files.outputs.only_deleted == 'true'
        run: |
          for file in ${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.deleted_files }}; do
            echo "$file was deleted"
          done          

      - name: Use a source file or list of file(s) to populate to files input.
        id: changed-files-specific-source-file
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v19.1
        with:
          files_from_source_file: |
            test/changed-files-list.txt            

      - name: Use a source file or list of file(s) to populate to files input and optionally specify more files.
        id: changed-files-specific-source-file-and-specify-files
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v19.1
        with:
          files_from_source_file: |
            test/changed-files-list.txt            
          files: |
            test.txt            

      - name: Use a different commit SHA
        id: changed-files-custom-sha
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v19.1
        with:
          sha: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}

      - name: Use a different base SHA
        id: changed-files-custom-base-sha
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v19.1
        with:
          base_sha: "2096ed0"
          
      - name: Checkout into dir1
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
          path: dir1

      - name: Run changed-files with defaults on the dir1
        id: changed-files-for-dir1
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v19.1
        with:
          path: dir1

      - name: List all added files in dir1
        run: |
          for file in ${{ steps.changed-files-for-dir1.outputs.added_files }}; do
            echo "$file was added"
          done          

      - name: Run changed-files using the last commit on the remote branch
        id: changed-files-since-last-remote-commit
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v19.1
        with:
          since_last_remote_commit: "true"
      
      - name: Run changed-files using the fork point of a pull request
        id: changed-files-fork-point
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v19.1
        with:
          use_fork_point: "true"
          
      - name: Run changed-files with quotepath disabled
        id: changed-files-quotepath
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v19.1
        with:
          quotepath: "false"

• Free software: MIT license

Known Limitation

NOTE: ⚠️

• Using characters like \n, % and \r as separators would be URL encoded
• Spaces in file names can introduce bugs when using bash loops. See: #216 However, this action will handle spaces in file names, with a recommendation of using a separator to prevent hidden issues.

Versioning

This project follows a v(major).(patch) versioning scheme with the exception of pointing the git ref of the latest patch release to the major version tag.

NOTE: ⚠️

• Users referencing the legacy v1.x.x -> v5.0.0 semantic versions, are required to switch over to v10.x -> v15.x respectively as new releases would no longer be deployed using the old versioning scheme.
• A breaking change was introduced in v1.1.4 and v13.x which has been fixed.

Migration guide

With the switch from using grep's Extended regex to match files to the natively supported workflow glob pattern matching snytax introduced in v13 you'll need to modify patterns used to match files.

BEFORE

...

      - name: Get specific changed files
        id: changed-files-specific
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v12.2
        with:
          files: |
            \.sh$
            .(sql|py)$
            ^(mynewfile|custom)            

AFTER

...

      - name: Get specific changed files
        id: changed-files-specific
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v19.1
        with:
          files: |
            *.sh
            *.sql
            *.py
            mynewfile
            custom/**            

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter.

• tj-actions/glob

Report Bugs

Report bugs at https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/issues.

If you are reporting a bug, please include:

• Your operating system name and version.
• Any details about your workflow that might be helpful in troubleshooting.
• Detailed steps to reproduce the bug.

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Josh Soref 📖	Nick Landers 💻	Krasimir Nikolov 💻 📖	Ivan Pizhenko 💻 📖	talva-tr 💻	Ikko Ashimine 📖	James 📖
James Cheng 📖	Masaya Suzuki 💻	fagai 📖	Constantine Peresypkin 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!