{"thread":{"id":"64084","subject":"git whatchanged","startedAt":"2025-09-03T15:35:12Z","lastAt":"2025-09-03T21:47:26Z","messageCount":4,"participants":["Jesse Hathaway","Junio C Hamano","Kristoffer Haugsbakk"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"525436","messageId":"CANSNSoWZNx3j3eLAayW64iC+bvC9XfetV+wZAkK6Zy8Zm0DWSw@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"64084","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"git whatchanged","fromName":"Jesse Hathaway","fromEmail":"jesse@mbuki-mvuki.org","sentAt":"2025-09-03T15:34:59Z","receivedAt":"2025-09-03T15:35:12Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jesse@mbuki-mvuki.org","avatar":null},"body":"Git developers,\n\nThanks for the wonderful tool. I still use `git whatchanged` I realize\nthat `git log --raw` is the same output, but it doesn't have the same\nmnemonic resonance as `git whatchanged`. So here is my small vote to\nkeep the feature. Yours kindly, Jesse Hathaway\n"},{"id":"525458","messageId":"xmqqwm6fe2d9.fsf@gitster.g","threadId":"64084","inReplyTo":"CANSNSoWZNx3j3eLAayW64iC+bvC9XfetV+wZAkK6Zy8Zm0DWSw@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: git whatchanged","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2025-09-03T19:56:50Z","receivedAt":"2025-09-03T19:56:52Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Jesse Hathaway <jesse@mbuki-mvuki.org> writes:\n\n> Git developers,\n>\n> Thanks for the wonderful tool. I still use `git whatchanged` I realize\n> that `git log --raw` is the same output, but it doesn't have the same\n> mnemonic resonance as `git whatchanged`.\n\nThe \"raw\" output spews meaningless hexadecimal strings.  Why not\nlearn to use a more meaningful option, now you are switching out of\nthe command that is going away anyway, perhaps like \"--status\",\nwhich lets you see the extent of damage to each path, for example?\n"},{"id":"525460","messageId":"0219828e-4f7b-418d-9d5e-87c0b5fbd4d1@app.fastmail.com","threadId":"64084","inReplyTo":"xmqqwm6fe2d9.fsf@gitster.g","subject":"Re: git whatchanged","fromName":"Kristoffer Haugsbakk","fromEmail":"kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com","sentAt":"2025-09-03T20:43:44Z","receivedAt":"2025-09-03T20:44:11Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"On Wed, Sep 3, 2025, at 21:56, Junio C Hamano wrote:a\n> The \"raw\" output spews meaningless hexadecimal strings.  Why not\n> learn to use a more meaningful option, now you are switching out of\n> the command that is going away anyway, perhaps like \"--status\",\n\n* --stat\n\nProbably.\n\n> which lets you see the extent of damage to each path, for example?\n\n-- \nKristoffer Haugsbakk\n\n"},{"id":"525467","messageId":"xmqqa53bdx90.fsf@gitster.g","threadId":"64084","inReplyTo":"0219828e-4f7b-418d-9d5e-87c0b5fbd4d1@app.fastmail.com","subject":"Re: git whatchanged","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2025-09-03T21:47:23Z","receivedAt":"2025-09-03T21:47:26Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"\"Kristoffer Haugsbakk\" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:\n\n> On Wed, Sep 3, 2025, at 21:56, Junio C Hamano wrote:a\n>> The \"raw\" output spews meaningless hexadecimal strings.  Why not\n>> learn to use a more meaningful option, now you are switching out of\n>> the command that is going away anyway, perhaps like \"--status\",\n>\n> * --stat\n>\n> Probably.\n\nIndeed.  Thanks for correcting me.  These days I use --compact-summary\ninstead myself, though ;-)\n\n>\n>> which lets you see the extent of damage to each path, for example?\n"}]}