Find the base branch of a Pull request

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I use drone with github and like to run it on a PR base.
My CI needs to run a command per changed folder, for which usually I’d use something like

git diff basebranch…HEAD --name-only

I tried git diff $DRONE_BRANCH…HEAD, but this does not seem to work with drone.
Also while looking at git branch --list (-r), it seems like drone does not know about those branches.

How can I achieve something similar within drone (preferably using the default git plugin)? I’m only interested in changed names/folders.

Thanks!

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After digging around a bit, I found a solution using git diff FETCH_HEAD^1 FETCH_HEAD^2

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I’ve found another way to solve the problem:

base_branch_short_name="$(echo "$DRONE_COMMIT_REFSPEC" | sed -e 's/^.*://')"
git fetch origin "$base_branch_short_name"
base_branch="remotes/origin/$base_branch_short_name"
git diff "$DRONE_COMMIT_SHA".."$base_branch"