Re: Remove old forgotten command: whatchanged

From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date: Aug 8, 2013, 19:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20130808190908.GF2337@serenity.lan>
In-Reply-To: <vpqk3jwcb1q.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 08:06:09PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

Show 18 quoted lines

> --- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
> @@ -532,12 +532,7 @@ commit, and you can tell it to show a whole series of diffs.
>  Alternatively, you can tell it to be "silent", and not show the diffs at
>  all, but just show the actual commit message.
>  
> -In fact, together with the 'git rev-list' program (which generates a
> -list of revisions), 'git diff-tree' ends up being a veritable fount of
> -changes. A trivial (but very useful) script called 'git whatchanged' is
> -included with Git which does exactly this, and shows a log of recent
> -activities.
> -
> +'git log' can also be used to display changes introduced by some commits.
>  To see the whole history of our pitiful little git-tutorial project, you
>  can do
>  
> @@ -550,7 +545,7 @@ with the associated patches use the more complex (and much more
>  powerful)

Isn't this paragraph slightly misleading now? We're not using a different command any more so this could say:

    which shows just the log messages, or if we want to see the log together
    with the associated patches use the `--patch` option

>  ----------------
> -$ git whatchanged -p
> +$ git log --raw -p
>  ----------------

Then this can be "git log --patch", since it seems that the surrounding text doesn't actually care that whatchanged prints the raw diffstat.