changed-files | Github action to retrieve | Continous Integration library

I have a dynamic list of paths, each of which may or may not contain whitespace within itself. For example,

Hello I'm a little confused if it is possible via Github Actions to get the latest SHA of a file with only its file's name.

I built a pylint git action, for pull request, which actually works really well:

I searched quite a bit, found several threads here (e.g. this, that, and more), but I could not find the answer to the following task: Use the Azure DevOps API to retrieve the content changes (basically the file before and after) of all the files of a specific PR.

I can find a PR, can loop through changes, iterations, commits (in various combinations), but I have not been able to download both the first and the last version of each or the files (and there should be a way as I can view the before and after in a PR in DevOps).

Any hints where/how I can retrieve both versions of a file of a certain commit/change/iteration?

Many thanks in advance!

Cheers, Udo

I need to pull out all files changed since a certain date from my git repo to copy them into a separate repo.

Running the following grabs the list of file paths that I need:

git log --since="2021-10-21" --name-only --pretty=format: | sort > changed-files.txt

Manually copying this large list would be time-consuming and very error-prone.

Is there any way to extract or bundle this list of files to more easily move them?

I need a list of files that changed and dump it to the files

I can get all the list by running this git diff-tree --name-status -r "upstream/$CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME..HEAD" > changed-files.txt

But now I want only a list of files that changed inside the resources folder only

How to do that?

A parent git repo contains several submodules, and the folder structure as belowing:

ok, here's my yet again evolved git awk script.

I am more familiar with using git on the command line (MacOS, especially). However, I sometimes try to use the Android Studio VCS "commit", as it is sometimes slightly faster to use. The weird problem that I came across today is that Android's Studio git "commit" does not see my 4 modified files, whereas from the command line, git status shows clearly the 4 modified files. I have seen this Stack Overflow post and I have checked it is not for any of these reasons (like, not adding the file to the git repository, or it is stashed, etc,). Besides, since git status shows the files, they are clearly in the repo, they are not stashed, and they are modified.

Here are the screenshots from Android Studio and from the command line showing the discrepancy.

Some other things I checked:

1. The project path in Android Studio matches with the path on the command line. (so I'm not looking at a different copy of the git repo)
2. My .gitignore is not excluding those 4 modified files. In any case, even if it is, it should be doing that for both the command line git and the Android Studio git, right?
3. The "path to Git executable" setting in Android Studio is /usr/bin/git, same as what I get with which git from the command line.

Any ideas what may be the problem?

ps. I may have encountered such a problem before, and just proceeded to use the command line. But this time, I hope to learn something new about the Android Studio git integration :-).