The FindChangedPaths RPC should support custom diff filters

The FindChangedPaths RPC performs git-diff-tree(1) between a set of revisions and returns the raw diff info for all changed file pairs. There are certain use-cases where a client may only care about certain diff status and want to exclude ones they don't care about.

The git-diff-tree(1) command was the --diff-filter option to accomplish this. We should extend this RPC allow this option to be configurable.

Edited Jul 10, 2025 by Justin Tobler

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