Get the name of changed files in MR

In companies with unestablished pipeline systems, there is always a risk of incidents with config changes. The short term solution is to analyze the changed files to prevent them from being sent along with the code.

You can use git diff to get a list of changed files in a practical way.

git diff --name-only ${SHA}

Notes

• You can use Gitlab’s predefined CI_MERGE_REQUEST_DIFF_BASE_SHA variable to find changed files in MR pipelines.
• If you are only interested in the names of the files, you can switch to the --name-only flag.