# I still use this! 4 messages from 2025-09-30 to 2025-10-03. Participants: Stephen Harding, Kristoffer Haugsbakk, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/64228 ## Stephen Harding, 2025-09-30 18:49 Subject: I still use this! Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAKu9fqx-fkOmKLby0mWU8D-T9vL1oY49kVLN2zWwhyfTUKSPsw%40mail.gmail.com ``` I just encountered this: 'git whatchanged' is nominated for removal. If you still use this command, please add an extra option, '--i-still-use-this', on the command line and let us know you still use it by sending an e-mail to . Thanks. fatal: refusing to run without --i-still-use-this I use oh-my-zsh and I rely on the git aliases. I used this today: which gwch gwch: aliased to git whatchanged -p --abbrev-commit --pretty=medium and apparently you want me to send you an email to prove that I, an actual human really do use that ... cheers, Stephen ``` ## Kristoffer Haugsbakk, 2025-09-30 19:57 Subject: Re: I still use this! Message-ID: <43693ac1-e289-4e80-b74b-39e134ffb476@app.fastmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/43693ac1-e289-4e80-b74b-39e134ffb476%40app.fastmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Tue, Sep 30, 2025, at 20:49, Stephen Harding wrote: > I just encountered this: > > 'git whatchanged' is nominated for removal. > If you still use this command, please add an extra > option, '--i-still-use-this', on the command line > and let us know you still use it by sending an e-mail > to . Thanks. > fatal: refusing to run without --i-still-use-this > > > I use oh-my-zsh and I rely on the git aliases. I used this today: > > which gwch > gwch: aliased to git whatchanged -p --abbrev-commit --pretty=medium It's being removed because git log supplanted it over 12 years ago. Both commands use the same machinery, just with different defaults. You should be able to replace that with git log in front instead, maybe with a --no-merges as well. Cheers ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2025-09-30 20:02 Subject: Re: I still use this! Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqldlv4skm.fsf%40gitster.g In-Reply-To: ``` Stephen Harding writes: > I just encountered this: > > 'git whatchanged' is nominated for removal. > If you still use this command, please add an extra > option, '--i-still-use-this', on the command line > and let us know you still use it by sending an e-mail > to . Thanks. > fatal: refusing to run without --i-still-use-this > > > I use oh-my-zsh and I rely on the git aliases. I used this today: > > which gwch > gwch: aliased to git whatchanged -p --abbrev-commit --pretty=medium > > and apparently you want me to send you an email to prove that I, an > actual human really do use that ... It is not about proving, and sending an email will not change our plan, but it gives users an opportunity to tell us a use case where no possible workaround exists, which we haven't anticipated. You can change your alias to git log --no-merges -p --abbrev-commit --pretty=medium and should get output identical to what you are getting. Also, I think "--pretty=medium" is the default. ``` ## Stephen Harding, 2025-10-03 16:38 Subject: Re: I still use this! Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAKu9fqysTdO5Q_K68pR%3DQwdTpaL%3Dtkx94Vmu3jSvbWb0dt6h8Q%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Thanks for the tip! On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Stephen Harding writes: > > > I just encountered this: > > > > 'git whatchanged' is nominated for removal. > > If you still use this command, please add an extra > > option, '--i-still-use-this', on the command line > > and let us know you still use it by sending an e-mail > > to . Thanks. > > fatal: refusing to run without --i-still-use-this > > > > > > I use oh-my-zsh and I rely on the git aliases. I used this today: > > > > which gwch > > gwch: aliased to git whatchanged -p --abbrev-commit --pretty=medium > > > > and apparently you want me to send you an email to prove that I, an > > actual human really do use that ... > > It is not about proving, and sending an email will not change our > plan, but it gives users an opportunity to tell us a use case where > no possible workaround exists, which we haven't anticipated. > > You can change your alias to > > git log --no-merges -p --abbrev-commit --pretty=medium > > and should get output identical to what you are getting. Also, I > think "--pretty=medium" is the default. > > > ```