From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:59:02 GMT
Subject: Re: 'git whatchanged' is nominated for removal.
Message-ID: <dc5de1b6-db24-499a-bee3-3eb2208ae08b@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <a6067200-a7cf-4632-85f0-8c6bcd00a5c1@redhat.com>

Good evening

On Thu, Oct 9, 2025, at 22:53, Justin Sherrill wrote:
> i recently got this message in my friendly git client:
>
> $ git wcp data/aws/insights-prod/account.yml
> '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
>
> This is just me raising my hand as I still use this feature :)

This command is being removed because it was supplanted by git-log(1) a
long while ago. Both commands use the same machinery, just with
different defaults.

You can replce it with `git log`:

• 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).