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Re: git whatchanged

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 3, 2025, 21:47 UTC
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"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:
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> On Wed, Sep 3, 2025, at 21:56, Junio C Hamano wrote:a
>> The "raw" output spews meaningless hexadecimal strings.  Why not
>> learn to use a more meaningful option, now you are switching out of
>> the command that is going away anyway, perhaps like "--status",
>
> * --stat
>
> Probably.

Indeed. Thanks for correcting me. These days I use --compact-summary instead myself, though ;-)

>
>> which lets you see the extent of damage to each path, for example?
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