From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:56:50 GMT
Subject: Re: git whatchanged
Message-ID: <xmqqwm6fe2d9.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CANSNSoWZNx3j3eLAayW64iC+bvC9XfetV+wZAkK6Zy8Zm0DWSw@mail.gmail.com>

Jesse Hathaway <jesse@mbuki-mvuki.org> writes:

> 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?