From: Stephen Harding <stharding@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:38:34 GMT
Subject: Re: I still use this!
Message-ID: <CAKu9fqysTdO5Q_K68pR=QwdTpaL=tkx94Vmu3jSvbWb0dt6h8Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqldlv4skm.fsf@gitster.g>

Thanks for the tip!

On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Stephen Harding <stharding@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I just encountered this:
> >
> > 'git whatchanged' is nominated for removal.
> > If you still use this command, please add an extra
> > option, '--i-still-use-this', on the command line
> > and let us know you still use it by sending an e-mail
> > to <git@vger.kernel.org>.  Thanks.
> > fatal: refusing to run without --i-still-use-this
> >
> >
> > I use oh-my-zsh and I rely on the git aliases. I used this today:
> >
> > which gwch
> > gwch: aliased to git whatchanged -p --abbrev-commit --pretty=medium
> >
> > and apparently you want me to send you an email to prove that I, an
> > actual human really do use that ...
>
> It is not about proving, and sending an email will not change our
> plan, but it gives users an opportunity to tell us a use case where
> no possible workaround exists, which we haven't anticipated.
>
> You can change your alias to
>
>     git log --no-merges -p --abbrev-commit --pretty=medium
>
> and should get output identical to what you are getting.  Also, I
> think "--pretty=medium" is the default.
>
>
>