Re: git whatchanged

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Aug 20, 2025, 07:52 UTC
Message-ID: <37da14fb-fead-448b-b6a0-853c9fbea653@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <011801dc114b$f38bb130$daa31390$@nexbridge.com>

On Tue, Aug 19, 2025, at 22:57, rsbecker@nexbridge.com wrote:

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> On August 19, 2025 1:51 PM, Chris Judkins-Fisher wrote:
>>I still use git whatchanged
>
> I did too. However, now that git log --since has basically the same
> functionality,
> Perhaps setting up a git alias might do the trick for you:
>
> git config --global alias.whatchanged 'log'
>
> so
>
> git whatchanged --since="2 week"
>
> or something like that should continue to work after the command is
> removed.

You can’t alias core commands. So this will fail in the reported way before Git 3.0. Then from that point out it will work as an alias.

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Kristoffer Haugsbakk