fmichonneau / ga-compare-folders

GitHub Action to compare the content of two folders

GitHub Action to compare content of 2 folders

Use the fiderent R package to compare the md5sum hashes of the files in two separate folders. This GitHub Actions returns a text file that contains the list of the files (with their paths) that are different between the two compared folders.

Usage:

- name: Identify files to invalidate
  uses: docker://fmichonneau/ga-compare-folders:latest
  env:
    FOLDER_1: _site_prev/
    FOLDER_2: _site/
    OUTPUT: changed_files.txt
    ADD_ROOTS: true

FOLDER_1, FOLDER_2 and OUTPUT are required. ADD_ROOTS is optional. If ADD_ROOTS is true, then the folders that include index.html will be included in the list of files that are different.

If you compare 2 folders with the following layout:

- root_1/
  `-- index.html
README.md

and index.html is different in each folder but README.md is identical, when setting ADD_ROOTS to true the output will include /root_1/ and /root_1/index.html, and when set to false, it will only include /root_1/index.html. If unspecified, the default is set to true.