{"thread":{"id":"64058","subject":"git whatchanged breakage","startedAt":"2025-08-29T06:58:39Z","lastAt":"2025-08-29T15:11:39Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Ron Yorston","Kristoffer Haugsbakk","Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"525184","messageId":"68b14aad.X1BRkbvYn8oZ8Dhp%rmy@frippery.org","threadId":"64058","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"git whatchanged breakage","fromName":"Ron Yorston","fromEmail":"rmy@frippery.org","sentAt":"2025-08-29T06:37:33Z","receivedAt":"2025-08-29T06:58:39Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"rmy@frippery.org","avatar":null},"body":"I use 'git-restore-mtime' from git-tools[1].  The latest release of\ngit broke this.\n\nWhat happened to politely deprecating things before breaking them?\n\nRon\n\n[1] https://github.com/MestreLion/git-tools\n"},{"id":"525186","messageId":"aac16c10-df63-4ff7-af39-954e57b112d1@app.fastmail.com","threadId":"64058","inReplyTo":"68b14aad.X1BRkbvYn8oZ8Dhp%rmy@frippery.org","subject":"Re: git whatchanged breakage","fromName":"Kristoffer Haugsbakk","fromEmail":"kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com","sentAt":"2025-08-29T07:32:28Z","receivedAt":"2025-08-29T07:32:50Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"On Fri, Aug 29, 2025, at 08:37, Ron Yorston wrote:\n> I use 'git-restore-mtime' from git-tools[1].  The latest release of\n> git broke this.\n> ...\n> [1] https://github.com/MestreLion/git-tools\n\nIssue: https://github.com/MestreLion/git-tools/issues/82\nA PR: https://github.com/MestreLion/git-tools/pull/83\n\n> What happened to politely deprecating things before breaking them?\n\nIt wasn’t deprecated but its use was discouraged starting from\n52f425e1a9a (whatchanged: document its historical nature, 2013-08-09).\n\n-- \nKristoffer\n"},{"id":"525206","messageId":"xmqqwm6mp3h3.fsf@gitster.g","threadId":"64058","inReplyTo":"68b14aad.X1BRkbvYn8oZ8Dhp%rmy@frippery.org","subject":"Re: git whatchanged breakage","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2025-08-29T15:11:36Z","receivedAt":"2025-08-29T15:11:39Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Ron Yorston <rmy@frippery.org> writes:\n\n> I use 'git-restore-mtime' from git-tools[1].  The latest release of\n> git broke this.\n>\n> What happened to politely deprecating things before breaking them?\n\n\nPerhaps the wording was not explicit enough before the recent\nupdate, but I thought it has been in the deprecated state for a long\ntime, at least since Aug 2013.\n\n"}]}