From: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 18:01:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Remove old forgotten command: whatchanged
Message-ID: <4EE8B37B-F6A1-4BC4-9151-8546868E60A5@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0=zZKTwn7cdrJXsVXH-rF=xWMeD_z2XAOCnuaf2bK_h8Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Aug 7, 2013, at 09:00, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is the difference between whatchanged and log:
>
> diff --git a/whatchanged b/log
> index fa1b223..004d9aa 100644
> --- a/tmp/whatchanged
> +++ b/tmp/log
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -int cmd_whatchanged(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> +int cmd_log(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> {
>        struct rev_info rev;
>        struct setup_revision_opt opt;
> @@ -7,13 +7,10 @@ int cmd_whatchanged(int argc, const char **argv,
> const char *prefix)
>        git_config(git_log_config, NULL);
>
>        init_revisions(&rev, prefix);
> -       rev.diff = 1;
> -       rev.simplify_history = 0;
> +       rev.always_show_header = 1;
>        memset(&opt, 0, sizeof(opt));
>        opt.def = "HEAD";
>        opt.revarg_opt = REVARG_COMMITTISH;
>        cmd_log_init(argc, argv, prefix, &rev, &opt);
> -       if (!rev.diffopt.output_format)
> -               rev.diffopt.output_format = DIFF_FORMAT_RAW;
>        return cmd_log_walk(&rev);
> }
>
> Should we remove it?

I use it all the time.  Is there some log option to get exactly the  
same output?  It doesn't appear that there is.  The closest looks like  
"log --name-status" but it omits the modes and hash values.