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git's deprecated "whatchanged"

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TJTuttle, James <james.tuttle@dell.com>
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Aug 28, 2025, 01:02 UTC
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All of my Jenkins pipelines on build nodes with git version "2.51.0.windows.1" are running into this error.  Please consider restoring this functionality.  This is apparently fixed in https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-76017 but we can't upgrade that Git client plugin yet.

2025-08-27 14:28:57 > git rev-list --no-walk fc8ec6fba03810f0cd26ea762d3b17931d82bca9 # timeout=10 2025-08-27 14:28:57 'git whatchanged' is nominated for removal. 2025-08-27 14:28:57 If you still use this command, please add an extra 2025-08-27 14:28:57 option, '--i-still-use-this', on the command line 2025-08-27 14:28:57 and let us know you still use it by sending an e-mail 2025-08-27 14:28:57 to <mailto:git@vger.kernel.org>. Thanks. 2025-08-27 14:28:57 fatal: refusing to run without --i-still-use-this 2025-08-27 14:28:57 ERROR: Unable to retrieve changeset

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  1. Tuttle, JamesAug 28, 2025

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