Re: I still use git whatchanged

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 14, 2025, 01:06 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqikgiz3z3.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <ae47adc7-7393-4994-9aae-e661c0e36b66@app.fastmail.com>

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

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> On Mon, Oct 13, 2025, at 23:59, Samer Abdallah wrote:
>> I still use git whatchanged.
>
> You can replace it with `git log` in this way:
>
> • Given: `git whatchanged <opts>`
> • Replace with: `git log <opts> --no-merges --raw`
>
> Additionally for the sake of readability, you might have more
> use for `--stat` or `--name-only` rather than `--raw` if you are only
> reading the output (not feeding the output to another program).

Thanks for fielding these repeated questions.

Let's do a maintenance release Git 2.51.1 very soon with your kh/you-still-use-whatchanged-fix topic, together with other minor documentation changes and probably a hdnful of ci related fixes.

We haven't had non-security maintenance releases for quite a while, so I may need to remember and practice the procedure to cut one ;-)