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Re: git whatchanged

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 3, 2025, 19:56 UTC
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Jesse Hathaway <jesse@mbuki-mvuki.org> writes:
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> Git developers,
>
> Thanks for the wonderful tool. I still use `git whatchanged` I realize
> that `git log --raw` is the same output, but it doesn't have the same
> mnemonic resonance as `git whatchanged`.

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

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