threads / discuss / 64058

git whatchanged breakage

Subject: git whatchanged breakage

## tl;dr

3 messages between Aug 29, 2025 and Aug 29, 2025.

replies: 2people: 3as markdown or json

Ron Yorston· Aug 29, 2025, 06:37 UTC · lore

I use 'git-restore-mtime' from git-tools[1]. The latest release of git broke this.

What happened to politely deprecating things before breaking them?

Ron

[1] https://github.com/MestreLion/git-tools

Kristoffer Haugsbakk· Aug 29, 2025, 07:32 UTC · re: Ron Yorston · lore

Re: git whatchanged breakage

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025, at 08:37, Ron Yorston wrote:

> I use 'git-restore-mtime' from git-tools[1].  The latest release of
> git broke this.
> ...
> [1] https://github.com/MestreLion/git-tools

Issue: https://github.com/MestreLion/git-tools/issues/82
A PR: https://github.com/MestreLion/git-tools/pull/83

> What happened to politely deprecating things before breaking them?

It wasn’t deprecated but its use was discouraged starting from 52f425e1a9a (whatchanged: document its historical nature, 2013-08-09).

-- 
Kristoffer

Junio C Hamano· Aug 29, 2025, 15:11 UTC · re: Ron Yorston · lore

Re: git whatchanged breakage

Ron Yorston <rmy@frippery.org> writes:

> I use 'git-restore-mtime' from git-tools[1].  The latest release of
> git broke this.
>
> What happened to politely deprecating things before breaking them?

Perhaps the wording was not explicit enough before the recent update, but I thought it has been in the deprecated state for a long time, at least since Aug 2013.