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Re: Remove old forgotten command: whatchanged

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Aug 8, 2013, 15:03 UTC
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> The only thing it does is to scratch an irrelevant itch by people
>> who peek the codebase and find an old command whose existence does
>> not even hurt them.  They may have too much time on their hand, but
>> that is not an excuse to waste other people's time by adding extra
>> makework on our plate, or changing the behaviour for people who use
>> the command without explanation.
>
> It's a maintenance burden

I'm not really worried about the maintainance of a 20-lines long function ...

> that confuses users.

... but I do agree that the doc is really confusing. It would be much better if the doc could be reduced to:

"This is a synonym for linkgit:git-log[1] --raw --some --other ---options. Please refer to the documentation of that command."

-- 
Matthieu Moy
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Message 7 of 31 in “Remove old forgotten command: whatchanged”
  1. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 7, 2013
  2. Stefan BellerAug 7, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 7, 2013
  4. Stefan BellerAug 7, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2013
  6. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 8, 2013
  7. Matthieu MoyAug 8, 2013
  8. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 8, 2013
  9. Matthieu MoyAug 8, 2013
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2013
  11. whatchanged: document its historical natureJunio C Hamano, Aug 9, 2013
  12. John KeepingAug 9, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2013
  14. John KeepingAug 12, 2013
  15. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2013
  16. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 10, 2013
  17. Damien RobertAug 8, 2013
  18. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 8, 2013
  19. Matthieu MoyAug 8, 2013
  20. John KeepingAug 8, 2013
  21. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2013
  22. Matthieu MoyAug 9, 2013
  23. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2013
  24. Matthieu MoyAug 13, 2013
  25. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2013
  26. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2013
  27. Damien RobertAug 9, 2013
  28. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2013
  29. Kyle J. McKayAug 7, 2013
  30. John KeepingAug 7, 2013
  31. Kyle J. McKayAug 7, 2013

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