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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, 15:24 UTC
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
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> Matthieu Moy wrote:
>> ... 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."
>
> I don't think there's an exact correspondence with any combination of
> command-line options. Perhaps we can describe it in words, and ask
> people to use log instead?

I'd say either this, or add the missing features to "git log" to make my suggestion possible (after all, if some people like "git whatchanged", then maybe the feature would be of interest to "git log" users ?).

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Matthieu Moy
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Message 9 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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