# git whatchanged

4 messages from 2025-09-26 to 2025-09-28. Participants: Neal Miller, Kristoffer Haugsbakk, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/64211

## Neal Miller, 2025-09-26 01:00

Subject: git whatchanged
Message-ID: <19a81573bf1ef7c544106e8fa7dd3b2db304c4f7.camel@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/19a81573bf1ef7c544106e8fa7dd3b2db304c4f7.camel%40gmail.com

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--i-still-use-this

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## Kristoffer Haugsbakk, 2025-09-26 07:13

Subject: Re: git whatchanged
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URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7e3a5da4-0ac2-40ae-a96e-0e9a88a68d7e%40app.fastmail.com
In-Reply-To: <19a81573bf1ef7c544106e8fa7dd3b2db304c4f7.camel@gmail.com>

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Good morning

On Fri, Sep 26, 2025, at 03:00, Neal Miller wrote:
> --i-still-use-this

You can replace it with `git log`:

• Given: `git whatchanged <opts>`
• Replace with: `git log <opts> --no-merges --raw`

Additionally for the sake of readability, you might have more use for
`--stat` or `--name-only` rather than `--raw` if you are only reading
the output.

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## Junio C Hamano, 2025-09-26 15:54

Subject: Re: git whatchanged
Message-ID: <xmqqbjmxcips.fsf@gitster.g>
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In-Reply-To: <7e3a5da4-0ac2-40ae-a96e-0e9a88a68d7e@app.fastmail.com>

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"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:

> Good morning
>
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2025, at 03:00, Neal Miller wrote:
>> --i-still-use-this
>
> You can replace it with `git log`:
>
> • Given: `git whatchanged <opts>`
> • Replace with: `git log <opts> --no-merges --raw`
>
> Additionally for the sake of readability, you might have more use for
> `--stat` or `--name-only` rather than `--raw` if you are only reading
> the output.

Additionally, "--no-merges" may not be of value that exceeds the
cost of typing that many characters.

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## Neal Miller, 2025-09-28 01:12

Subject: Re: git whatchanged
Message-ID: <e41c0aa427d45e922c86cd88b3ba626054901bcc.camel@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/e41c0aa427d45e922c86cd88b3ba626054901bcc.camel%40gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <7e3a5da4-0ac2-40ae-a96e-0e9a88a68d7e@app.fastmail.com>

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Thank you, I found that 'git log -p --abbrev-commit --pretty=medium'
gives the identical output as the the 'git whatchanged -p --abbrev-
commit --pretty=medium' command that my alias, 'gwch' was set to use in
oh-my-zsh. I'll just set my alias to that now instead.
On Fri, 2025-09-26 at 09:13 +0200, Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote:


> 
> > Good morning
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2025, at 03:00, Neal Miller wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > --i-still-use-this
> > > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> > You can replace it with `git log`:
> > • Given: `git whatchanged <opts>`• Replace with: `git log <opts> --
no-merges --raw`
> > Additionally for the sake of readability, you might have more use
for`--stat` or `--name-only` rather than `--raw` if you are only
reading the output.
>



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