how to find out list of all changed files in git for full jenkins build and not for a particular commit?

Question

How to find all changed files since last commited build in GIT ? I want to build not only the changed files at head revision but also, all the changed files which got chang

Answer 1

I'm not entirely sure I follow your question, but two things to consider:

• git diff --stat {X SHA-1 ID} should work for what you're looking for. Or, you could be more explicit and do git diff --stat {X SHA-1 ID} {X SHA-1 ID + 3 commits} which will give you the files changes between the two commits given. This will output something like:

  Library/ENV/4.3/cc                |  3 ++-
  Library/Formula/cmu-sphinxbase.rb | 10 +++++++---
  Library/Formula/fb-client.rb      | 11 +++++++++++
  

  I leave it as an exercise for the reader to parse that output into just a list of files.

• You should probably be doing a full, clean build in Jenkins, and not only building certain files. You may end up getting caught by weird incompatibilities between built files. But that's beyond the scope of this question.

---Edit with more info---

To break this problem down into parts:

1. Get SHA1 hashes to work with - You need the current HEAD of repo (Checking out Revision, which we will call $CUR_HASH) and commit when Jenkins last built (Last Build Revision, which we will call $LAST_HASH). It sounds like you already have these, and if not, that's sort of beyond the scope of the question.
2. Get list of files changed between $LAST_HASH and $CUR_HASH - This is the aforementioned git diff --stat $LAST_HASH $CUR_HASH command, which will print out something like the above.

3. Get just the filenames from the output - doing this in bash, you could pipe the output of git diff to grep '\|' to get just the lines with filenames, and then pipe it to awk '{print $1} to get just the filename, without the stats. So the command is now something like:

   git diff --stat $LAST_HASH $CUR_HASH | grep '\|' | awk '{print $1}'
   

4. Create tarball from just the files changed - you can send the output of the above to tar like so:

   tar cvzf /tmp/build.tar.gz `git diff --stat $LAST_HASH $CUR_HASH | grep '\|' | awk '{print $1}'`
   

I think that covers everything that you're trying to do. Obviously, these commands can't just be copy/pasted since I don't know everything about your environment, but it's a good start.