Azure Git Get commit changes API return parent folder if file inside is modified

Question

Azure Git API to get commit changes (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/git/commits/get-changes?view=azure-devops-rest-6.0), lists parent folders as well with changeType as "edit" even when only the file within the folder is modified.
In Azure Git UI it says only 1 changed file

Please suggest if there are any flags that can be used to get only the file that was changed and not the parent folders

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

For Azure Git it can return tree when referencing collections of items like files, tags, etc. There is no parameter to filter out these as Git doesn't actually understand folders, it is completely file based. Hence you cannot have an empty folder.

To "filter out" trees you need to post process the JSON and remove any item that has a gitObjectType of tree. Note that it might return other types as well so alternatively you could simply look for blob types instead. Refer to the documentation on the object type for more information. Here's a link to a non-Azure DevOps overview of some of these object types.