Support workflow_dispatch event about paths-filter HOT 4 CLOSED

Ah, now I realised that this action is supposed to check for changes for the previous commit or the pull request and not local changes.

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With some small changes I could make it work with local changes too. Could you please shortly describe your use case?

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I managed to solve my issue with a simple run phase:

    - name: Detect changes in distributed code
      if: ${{ github.event.inputs.force != 'true' }}
      id: changes
      run: |
        if [[ $(git status --porcelain ./dist) != "" ]]; then
          echo "::set-output name=dist::true"
        fi

I have a workflow that updates dependencies for my GitHub Action but only (commits, pushes and) creates a pull request if the distributed code changed or the force input was set to true. (In case there is a security vulnerability in one of the development dependencies I want to force update, otherwise only if the actual output code changed) This workflow also runs weekly with a cron trigger.

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Detecting local changes is pretty easy. Usually there's no real need for a 3rd party action as you already figured out. Anyway supporting this will require just a cosmetic changes to what I have already so I will add it in next days.

Thanks for the idea 👍

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