# git whatchanged breakage 3 messages from 2025-08-29 to 2025-08-29. Participants: Ron Yorston, Kristoffer Haugsbakk, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/64058 ## Ron Yorston, 2025-08-29 06:37 Subject: git whatchanged breakage Message-ID: <68b14aad.X1BRkbvYn8oZ8Dhp%rmy@frippery.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/68b14aad.X1BRkbvYn8oZ8Dhp%25rmy%40frippery.org ``` 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, 2025-08-29 07:32 Subject: Re: git whatchanged breakage Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/aac16c10-df63-4ff7-af39-954e57b112d1%40app.fastmail.com In-Reply-To: <68b14aad.X1BRkbvYn8oZ8Dhp%rmy@frippery.org> ``` 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, 2025-08-29 15:11 Subject: Re: git whatchanged breakage Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqwm6mp3h3.fsf%40gitster.g In-Reply-To: <68b14aad.X1BRkbvYn8oZ8Dhp%rmy@frippery.org> ``` Ron Yorston 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. ```