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Re: Remove old forgotten command: whatchanged

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 13, 2013, 16:00 UTC
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> +changes.  You can emulate `git log` with a trivial script that pipes
>
> I'd say "You can emulate `git log` and `git log -p`" here, but I'm fine
> with your version too.

By `git log`, I meant "`git log` with its various options", as it felt unnecessary to single `-p` out. But will reword anyway.

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>> -[NOTE]
>> -Most likely, you are not directly using the core
>> -Git Plumbing commands, but using Porcelain such as 'git add', `git-rm'
>> -and `git-commit'.
>
> This removal sounds unrelated, but I don't understand what this note was
> doing here anyway, so it's good to remove it.

Yeah, the removal is part of "...and this document is not where the end users learn what `git log` command is about. Stop at briefly mentioning the possibility of combining rev-list with diff-tree to build your own log, and leave the end-user documentation of `log` to the new tutorial and the user manual".

Thanks.
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Message 25 of 31 in “Remove old forgotten command: whatchanged”
  1. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 7, 2013
  2. Stefan BellerAug 7, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 7, 2013
  4. Stefan BellerAug 7, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2013
  6. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 8, 2013
  7. Matthieu MoyAug 8, 2013
  8. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 8, 2013
  9. Matthieu MoyAug 8, 2013
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2013
  11. whatchanged: document its historical natureJunio C Hamano, Aug 9, 2013
  12. John KeepingAug 9, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2013
  14. John KeepingAug 12, 2013
  15. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2013
  16. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 10, 2013
  17. Damien RobertAug 8, 2013
  18. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 8, 2013
  19. Matthieu MoyAug 8, 2013
  20. John KeepingAug 8, 2013
  21. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2013
  22. Matthieu MoyAug 9, 2013
  23. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2013
  24. Matthieu MoyAug 13, 2013
  25. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2013
  26. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2013
  27. Damien RobertAug 9, 2013
  28. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2013
  29. Kyle J. McKayAug 7, 2013
  30. John KeepingAug 7, 2013
  31. Kyle J. McKayAug 7, 2013

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