README.md

git/changes

Detects all files and directories that contain changes when compared against a base branch. The action uses git diff to compare the changes between the current HEAD and the base branch.

Inputs

Name	Required	Type	Default	Description
base_branch	no	string	main	The branch to compare changes against
include_pattern	no	string	.*	A regular expression defining files to be included
ignore_pattern	no	string	none	A regular expression defining files to be excluded, with higher priority than the include_pattern

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
changed_files	string	A comma-separated list of files that were changed
changed_dirs	string	A comma-separated list of directories that contain changes

Usage

steps:
  - name: "🔎 Detect directories containing changes"
    id: detect-changes
    uses: ./git/changes
    with:
      base_branch: ${{ github.base_ref }}
      include_pattern: '.*\.(ya?ml|sh)'
      ignore_pattern: '(.github|test)/.*'

  - name: "🖨️ Print changes"
    run: |
      echo "${{ steps.detect-changes.outputs.changed_files }}"
      echo "${{ steps.detect-changes.outputs.changed_dirs }}"