Commits - Get Changes

Service:

Git

API Version:

7.1

Retrieve changes for a particular commit.

GET https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/git/repositories/{repositoryId}/commits/{commitId}/changes?api-version=7.1

With optional parameters:

GET https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/git/repositories/{repositoryId}/commits/{commitId}/changes?top={top}&skip={skip}&api-version=7.1

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
commitId	path	True	string	The id of the commit.
organization	path	True	string	The name of the Azure DevOps organization.
repositoryId	path	True	string	The id or friendly name of the repository. To use the friendly name, projectId must also be specified.
project	path		string	Project ID or project name
api-version	query	True	string	Version of the API to use. This should be set to '7.1' to use this version of the api.
skip	query		integer (int32)	The number of changes to skip.
top	query		integer (int32)	The maximum number of changes to return.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	GitCommitChanges	successful operation

Security

oauth2

Type: oauth2
Flow: accessCode
Authorization URL: https://app.vssps.visualstudio.com/oauth2/authorize&response_type=Assertion
Token URL: https://app.vssps.visualstudio.com/oauth2/token?client_assertion_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:client-assertion-type:jwt-bearer&grant_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer

Scopes

Name	Description
vso.code	Grants the ability to read source code and metadata about commits, changesets, branches, and other version control artifacts. Also grants the ability to search code and get notified about version control events via service hooks.

Examples

With changes

Sample request

HTTP

GET https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/git/repositories/278d5cd2-584d-4b63-824a-2ba458937249/commits/be67f8871a4d2c75f13a51c1d3c30ac0d74d4ef4/changes?top=2&skip=10&api-version=7.1

Sample response

Status code:

200

{
  "changeCounts": {
    "Add": 456
  },
  "changes": [
    {
      "item": {
        "gitObjectType": "blob",
        "path": "/MyWebSite/MyWebSite/favicon.ico",
        "url": "https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/git/repositories/278d5cd2-584d-4b63-824a-2ba458937249/items/MyWebSite/MyWebSite/favicon.ico?versionType=Commit"
      },
      "changeType": "add"
    },
    {
      "item": {
        "gitObjectType": "tree",
        "path": "/MyWebSite/MyWebSite/fonts",
        "isFolder": true,
        "url": "https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/git/repositories/278d5cd2-584d-4b63-824a-2ba458937249/items/MyWebSite/MyWebSite/fonts?versionType=Commit"
      },
      "changeType": "add"
    }
  ]
}

Definitions

Name	Description
ChangeCountDictionary
GitChange
GitCommitChanges
GitTemplate
ItemContent
ItemContentType
VersionControlChangeType	The type of change that was made to the item.

ChangeCountDictionary

Object

GitChange

Object

Name	Type	Description
changeId	integer (int32)	ID of the change within the group of changes.
changeType	VersionControlChangeType	The type of change that was made to the item.
item	string (T)	Current version.
newContent	ItemContent	Content of the item after the change.
newContentTemplate	GitTemplate	New Content template to be used when pushing new changes.
originalPath	string	Original path of item if different from current path.
sourceServerItem	string	Path of the item on the server.
url	string	URL to retrieve the item.

GitCommitChanges

Object

Name	Type	Description
changeCounts	ChangeCountDictionary
changes	GitChange[]

GitTemplate

Object

Name	Type	Description
name	string	Name of the Template
type	string	Type of the Template

ItemContent

Object

Name	Type	Description
content	string
contentType	ItemContentType

ItemContentType

Enumeration

Value	Description
base64Encoded
rawText

VersionControlChangeType

Enumeration

The type of change that was made to the item.

Value	Description
add
all
branch
delete
edit
encoding
lock
merge
none
property
rename
rollback
sourceRename
targetRename
undelete