From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:42:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Git whatchanged
Message-ID: <d1273222-df3d-4e1d-ab20-1a49f1a692bd@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <GV2P251MB09937AD11689D3148CD342D8F8E1A@GV2P251MB0993.EURP251.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

Good evening

On Wed, Oct 8, 2025, at 16:20, Filippo Falezza wrote:
> I am reaching out as I am still using the whatchanged option in git,
> which is very useful for my coding and handling merges.
> Please keep this option and do not break userspace.

This command is being removed because git-log(1) supplanted it over 12
years ago. Both commands use the same machinery, just with different
defaults.

You can replace the command with `git log` thus:

• Given: `git whatchanged <opts>`
• Replace with: `git log <opts> --no-merges --raw`

Additionally for the sake of readability, you might have more
use for `--stat` or `--name-only` rather than `--raw` if you are only
reading the output (not feeding the output to another program).