git whatchanged deprecation

From: Daniel Hammer <daniel.hammer@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 23, 2025, 22:00 UTC
Message-ID: <CALrqSpeAiSU5JtdePf1Haygd_a08AKu6iBrO-LZDjcW8KCqJLg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi git devs,

Regarding:

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> $ git whatchanged
> '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 still use this, usually multiple times a day.

The flag approach seems unnecessarily heavy handed, when amending the documentation would have sufficed.

As far as I can tell from the documentation, this is just shorthand for a(nother) counter-intuitive git command.

Hope this DevEx regression is reversed ASAP.

Thanks in advance,

DH