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Re: whatchanged is super useful!

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 25, 2025, 21:57 UTC
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Phil Hobbs <pcdhobbs@electrooptical.net> writes:
> I use git whatchanged all the time.  Please don't remove it!

No, we will remove it. What we wanted to hear readers ask was "what can I use instead?" And the answer is "git log --raw" or even better "git log --stat", "git log --name-only", etc., depending on your taste, all of them shorter to type than "git whatchanged".

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