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Re: git whatchanged breakage

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KHKristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date
Aug 29, 2025, 07:32 UTC
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2025, at 08:37, Ron Yorston wrote:
> I use 'git-restore-mtime' from git-tools[1].  The latest release of
> git broke this.
> ...
> [1] https://github.com/MestreLion/git-tools
Issue: https://github.com/MestreLion/git-tools/issues/82
A PR: https://github.com/MestreLion/git-tools/pull/83
> What happened to politely deprecating things before breaking them?

It wasn’t deprecated but its use was discouraged starting from 52f425e1a9a (whatchanged: document its historical nature, 2013-08-09).

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Kristoffer
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