Re: git whatchanged --i-still-use-it

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 3, 2026, 18:03 UTC
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Antoine Cousson <antoine.cousson@protonmail.com> writes:

> I would like to say that I still use `git whatchanged` I like the way we see the
> modified files instead of just `git log`

Then perhaps you would like "git log --stat" even better? Instead of meaningless pair of hexadecimal object names, you'd get a sense of the size of damage each commit causes to the codebase.

The command is going away.  You could

  $ git config alias.whatchanged "log --raw --no-merges"

if you really prefer the ugly hexadecimal gibberish, though.