Re: Using command nominated for removal: whatchanged

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 10, 2025, 20:08 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq8qimrrxo.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <b32a369f-87c9-41f6-b1cb-81273945dc17@app.fastmail.com>

"Chirayu Desai" <git@cdesai.in> writes:

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> Hello,
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> Hope this email finds you well!
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> 'git whatchanged' is nominated for removal.
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> I still use this command. I usually run 'git whatchanged -1' and 'git whatchanged <commit>' to quickly see what files have changed in a particular commit.
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> I guess there might be some alias I could setup to achieve the same - it's more that this command has become a muscle memory at this point so I kept hitting the removal message, and here I am.

Thanks for letting us know. If you still use it, you can retrain your fingers to use "git log" with some options instead. The most literal translation would be "git log --raw --no-merges", but there are MUCH BETTER options invented since "whatchanged" was written.

If the reason you are interested in is to learn the names of the files, then "git log --names-only" gives a lot cleaner output without hexadecimal gibberish that has not much use for human readers, for examplle.