feat: add support for using time based filtering.

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "${{ toJSON(steps.changed-files.outputs) }}"
         shell:
           bash
-      
+
       - name: Exit with 1 if no error is raised
         if: steps.changed-files.outcome != 'failure'
         run: |
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "${{ toJSON(steps.changed-files-specific.outputs) }}"
         shell:
           bash
-      
+
       - name: Exit with 1 if no error is raised
         if: steps.changed-files-specific.outcome != 'failure'
         run: |
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "${{ toJSON(steps.changed-files.outputs) }}"
         shell:
           bash
-      
+
       - name: Exit with 1 if no error is raised
         if: steps.changed-files.outcome != 'failure'
         run: |
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "${{ toJSON(steps.changed-files-specific.outputs) }}"
         shell:
           bash
-      
+
       - name: Exit with 1 if no error is raised
         if: steps.changed-files-specific.outcome != 'failure'
         run: |
@@ -302,6 +302,26 @@ jobs:
           echo '${{ toJSON(steps.changed-files-dir-names.outputs) }}'
         shell:
           bash
+      - name: Run changed-files since 2022-08-19
+        id: changed-files-since
+        uses: ./
+        with:
+          since: "2022-08-19"
+      - name: Show output
+        run: |
+          echo '${{ toJSON(steps.changed-files-since.outputs) }}'
+        shell:
+          bash
+      - name: Run changed-files until 2022-08-20
+        id: changed-files-until
+        uses: ./
+        with:
+          until: "2022-08-21"
+      - name: Show output
+        run: |
+          echo '${{ toJSON(steps.changed-files-until.outputs) }}'
+        shell:
+          bash
       - name: Run changed-files with forward slash separator
         id: changed-files-forward-slash
         uses: ./
@@ -372,7 +392,7 @@ jobs:
           base_sha: d1c0ee4
           sha: 4d04215
           include_all_old_new_renamed_files: true
-      - name: Show output 
+      - name: Show output
         run: |
           echo '${{ toJSON(steps.changed-files-all-old-new-renamed-files-1.outputs) }}'
         shell:

README.md

@@ -347,6 +347,18 @@ Support this project with a :star:
         uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v27
         with:
           json: "true"
+
+      - name: Run changed-files since 2022-08-19
+        id: changed-files-since
+        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v27
+        with:
+          since: "2022-08-19"
+
+      - name: Run changed-files until 2022-08-20
+        id: changed-files-until
+        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v27
+        with:
+          until: "2022-08-20"
 ```
 
 <img width="1147" alt="Screen Shot 2021-11-19 at 4 59 21 PM" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/17484350/142696936-8b7ca955-7ef9-4d53-9bdf-3e0008e90c3f.png">

action.yml

@@ -58,6 +58,12 @@ inputs:
     description: "Use the last commit on the remote branch as the base_sha for push event."
     required: false
     default: "false"
+  since:
+    description: "Get changed files for commits whose timestamp is older than the given time"
+    required: false
+  until:
+    description: "Get changed files for commits whose timestamp is earlier than the given time"
+    required: false
   path:
     description: "Specify a relative path under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE to locate the repository"
     required: false
@@ -152,7 +158,10 @@ runs:
   steps:
     - run: |
         # "Set base sha..."
-        if [[ -n "${{ inputs.base_sha }}" ]]; then
+        if [[ -n "${{ inputs.since }}" ]]; then
+          BASE_SHA=$(git log --format="%H" --date=local --since="${{ inputs.since }}" --reverse | head -n 1)
+          echo "::set-output name=base_sha::$BASE_SHA"
+        elif [[ -n "${{ inputs.base_sha }}" ]]; then
           echo "::set-output name=base_sha::${{ inputs.base_sha }}"
         elif [[ "${{ inputs.since_last_remote_commit }}" == "true" && "${{ github.event.forced }}" == "true" && "${{ github.event.before }}" != "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000" ]]; then
           LAST_REMOTE_COMMIT=$(git rev-parse $(git branch -r --sort=-committerdate | head -1))
@@ -164,6 +173,16 @@ runs:
         fi
       id: base-sha
       shell: bash
+    - run: |
+        # "Set the sha..."
+        if [[ -n "${{ inputs.until }}" ]]; then
+          SHA=$(git log -1 --format="%H" --date=local --until="${{ inputs.until }}")
+          echo "::set-output name=sha::$SHA"
+        else
+          echo "::set-output name=sha::${{ inputs.sha }}"
+        fi
+      id: sha
+      shell: bash
     - run: |
         # "Calculating the previous and current SHA..."
         bash $GITHUB_ACTION_PATH/diff-sha.sh
@@ -178,7 +197,7 @@ runs:
         GITHUB_WORKSPACE: ${{ github.workspace }}
         # INPUT_<VARIABLE_NAME> is not available in Composite run steps
         # https://github.community/t/input-variable-name-is-not-available-in-composite-run-steps/127611
-        INPUT_SHA: ${{ inputs.sha }}
+        INPUT_SHA: ${{ steps.sha.outputs.sha }}
         INPUT_BASE_SHA: ${{ steps.base-sha.outputs.base_sha }}
         INPUT_TOKEN: ${{ inputs.token }}
         INPUT_PATH: ${{ inputs.path }}

diff-sha.sh

@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ fi
 
 echo "Verifying git version..."
 
-function __version() { 
-  echo "$@" | awk -F. '{ printf("%d%03d%03d%03d\n", $1,$2,$3,$4); }'; 
+function __version() {
+  echo "$@" | awk -F. '{ printf("%d%03d%03d%03d\n", $1,$2,$3,$4); }';
 }
 
-GIT_VERSION=$(git --version | awk '{print $3}'); exit_status=$?   
+GIT_VERSION=$(git --version | awk '{print $3}'); exit_status=$?
 
 if [[ $exit_status -ne 0 ]]; then
   echo "::error::git not installed"
@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ fi
 
 if [[ -n "$PREVIOUS_SHA" && -n "$CURRENT_SHA" && "$PREVIOUS_SHA" == "$CURRENT_SHA" && "$INITIAL_COMMIT" == "false" ]]; then
   echo "::error::Similar commit hashes detected: previous sha: $PREVIOUS_SHA is equivalent to the current sha: $CURRENT_SHA"
-  echo "::error::You seem to be missing 'fetch-depth: 0' or 'fetch-depth: 2'. See https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files#usage"
   exit 1
 fi