verify-changed-files

Verify that certain files or directories did or did not change during the workflow execution.

NOTE: ⚠️

This action only detects files that have pending uncommited changes generated during the workflow execution, for running a specific step when a file changes in a pull request or based on a new commit

See: https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files

Features

Fast execution (0-2 seconds on average).
Easy to debug.
Scales to large repositories.
Supports all platforms (Linux, MacOS, Windows).
GitHub-hosted runners support
GitHub Enterprise Server support.
self-hosted runners support.
Boolean output for detecting uncommited changes.
List all files that changed during the workflow execution.
Detect changes to track and untracked files.
Restrict change detection to a subset of files:
- Using Glob pattern matching.

Usage

...
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Change text file
        run: |
          echo "Modified" > new.txt

      - name: Change file in directory
        run: |
          echo "Changed" > test_directory/new.txt

      - name: Verify Changed files
        uses: tj-actions/verify-changed-files@v13
        id: verify-changed-files
        with:
          files: |
             *.txt
             test_directory
             action.yml
             **/*.py
             **/*.jpeg
             !*.sql

      - name: Run step only when any of the above files change.
        if: steps.verify-changed-files.outputs.files_changed == 'true'
        run: |
          echo "Changed files: ${{ steps.verify-changed-files.outputs.changed_files }}"
        # Outputs: "Changed files: new.txt test_directory/new.txt"

Using the `contains` function.

...
      - name: Verify Changed files
        uses: tj-actions/verify-changed-files@v13
        id: verify-changed-files
        with:
          files: |
             new.txt
             test_directory

      - name: Perform action when test_directory changes
        if: contains(steps.verify-changed-files.outputs.changed_files, 'test_directory')
        run: |
          echo "test_directory has changed."

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Inputs

INPUT	TYPE	REQUIRED	DEFAULT	DESCRIPTION
autocrlf	string	false	`"input"`	Modify the git config core.autocrlf.
files	string	true		File/Directory names to check for uncommited changes.
files-separator	string	false	`"\n"`	Separator used to split the `files` input
separator	string	false	`" "`	Output string separator.