changed-files VS runner-images

Compare changed-files vs runner-images and see what are their differences.

changed-files

:octocat: Github action to retrieve all (added, copied, modified, deleted, renamed, type changed, unmerged, unknown) files and directories. (by tj-actions)

runner-images

GitHub Actions runner images (by actions)
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changed-files runner-images
6 48
1,465 8,852
6.1% 3.5%
9.8 9.8
2 days ago 2 days ago
TypeScript PowerShell
MIT License MIT License
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changed-files

Posts with mentions or reviews of changed-files. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-08.
  • Why it is Important to Update Linters and How to Do it Right
    4 projects | dev.to | 8 Feb 2024
    We need to add two additional steps. The first one is to retrieve all new files, and the second one is to run the enhanced config only on the new files. In this example the third-party GitHub Action called changed-files is used to obtain the new files. In the GitHub Marketplace for Actions, there is a considerable number of similar actions with similar functionality. You can choose the one that suits you best, as the functionality is more or less the same for all of them.
  • Attempting a larger bug fix II - Execution
    3 projects | dev.to | 10 Dec 2023
    I determined this after dozens of attempts working with the other GitHub Action, tj-actions/changed-files which feeds a list of modified files to clang-format-lint.
  • Yarn workspaces/monorepo and CI/CD
    2 projects | /r/node | 24 Jan 2023
    GitHub actions has actions that do similar, I’ve used this one before with great success: https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files
  • Turborepo + GitHub Actions
    2 projects | /r/node | 17 Dec 2022
    You could also clean up your changed files job by using this (https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files) or something similar. That would at least make it easier to understand what it's supposed to be doing. You can use it to get the directories containing any changed package.json files. Then use that output as as a matrix input.
  • GitHub Actions Pitfalls
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2022

runner-images

Posts with mentions or reviews of runner-images. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-14.
  • We Executed a Critical Supply Chain Attack on PyTorch
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2024
    Oh, you'll like this one then. Until 3 months ago GitHub's Runner images was pulling a package directly from Aliyun's CDN. This was executed during image testing (version check). So anyone with the ability to modify Aliyun's CDN in China could have carried out a pretty nasty attack. https://github.com/actions/runner-images/commit/6a9890362738...

    Now it's just anyone with write access to Aliyun's repository. :) (p.s. GitHub doesn't consider this a security issue).

    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2024
    Whoa, there's a lot of stuff in there [1] that gets installed straight from vendors, without pinning content checksums to a value known-good to Github.

    I get it, they want to have the latest versions instead of depending on how long Ubuntu (or, worse, Debian) package maintainers take to package stuff into their mainline repositories... but this attack surface is nuts.

    [1] https://github.com/actions/runner-images/tree/main/images/ub...

  • Terraform module for scalable GitHub action runners on AWS
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Dec 2023
    I had a similar experience with ARC (actions-runner-controller).

    One of the machines in the fleet failed to sync its clock via NTP. Once a job X got scheduled to it, the runner pod failed authentication due to incorrect clock time, and then the whole ARC system started to behave incorrectly: job X was stuck without runners, until another workflow job Y was created, and then X got run but Y became stuck. There were also other wierd behaviors like this so I eventually rebuilt everything based on VMs and stopped using ARC.

    Using VMs also allowed me to support the use of the official runner images [0], which is good for compatibility.

    I feel more people would benefit from managed "self-hosted" runners, so I started DimeRun [1] to provide cheaper GHA runners for people who don't have the time/willingness to troubleshoot low-level infra issues.

    [0]: https://github.com/actions/runner-images

  • macOS Containers v0.0.1
    24 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2023
    Reminds me: Still waiting for native ARM support on GitHub Actions https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/5631
  • failed apt install intel-media-va-driver
    2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 30 May 2023
    seems it's also recommended for actions. https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/2924
  • Github Action would not work for ipv6 only server
    2 projects | /r/ipv6 | 18 Apr 2023
    https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/668 Things like that make make me think "enterprise" in "IT" is actually a excuse to be slow ... and thats the kind of stuff people think they need to go from "on-premise" to "cloud" instead of fixing their stuff.
  • Imaging ADO build agent with python dependencies installed
    2 projects | /r/azuredevops | 22 Mar 2023
    Repo with how microsoft does it for the microsoft hosted agents: https://github.com/actions/runner-images
  • Can I publish and release a .NET Service with an installation executable on GitHub?
    3 projects | /r/dotnet | 21 Mar 2023
  • MS hosted agents as my own
    2 projects | /r/AZURE | 14 Mar 2023
    I am not sure what you mean, this source code for image runner that is building VMs with all required applications. This VMs are used with github actions or in Azure DevOPS as Microsoft hosted images. Also creating VMs with this code complex no an easy task. We have created heavy modified pipeline based on this https://github.com/actions/runner-images/tree/main/images.CI/linux-and-win/azure-pipelines and are building new image every month but this is very complex a complicated task. But I don't work with AKS or docker to help you with your question.
    2 projects | /r/AZURE | 14 Mar 2023
    I was wondering how to use MS repo Here were are definitions of MS hosted agents. The case is I would like to use it as my own agents on AKS cluster. Does anyone tried to do this and be able to create docker image base on this repo? Any help would be appreciated.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing changed-files and runner-images you can also consider the following projects:

jellyscrub - Smooth mouse-over video scrubbing previews for Jellyfin.

paths-filter - Conditionally run actions based on files modified by PR, feature branch or pushed commits

actionlint - :octocat: Static checker for GitHub Actions workflow files

json-tidy - Pretty prints JSON from stdin, files, or URLs

Image-Optimizer-Action - A Github Action to optimize / compress images in your repository

combine-prs-workflow - Combine/group together PRs (for example from Dependabot and similar services)

pretty - Efficient JSON beautifier and compactor for Go

runner - The Runner for GitHub Actions :rocket:

just - 🤖 Just a command runner

template.github.semver - Template for Projects that use Github Actions and Hooks to enforce Semantic Versioning

Mono - Mono open source ECMA CLI, C# and .NET implementation.