From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 21:47:23 GMT
Subject: Re: git whatchanged
Message-ID: <xmqqa53bdx90.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <0219828e-4f7b-418d-9d5e-87c0b5fbd4d1@app.fastmail.com>

"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:

> 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?