# Git whatchanged

2 messages from 2025-10-08 to 2025-10-08. Participants: Filippo Falezza, Kristoffer Haugsbakk.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/64274

## Filippo Falezza, 2025-10-08 14:20

Subject: Git whatchanged
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To whom it may concern,

I am reaching out as I am still using the whatchanged option in git, which is very useful for my coding and handling merges.
Please keep this option and do not break userspace.

Thank you
kind regards

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Filippo Falezza

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## Kristoffer Haugsbakk, 2025-10-08 14:42

Subject: Re: Git whatchanged
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Good evening

On Wed, Oct 8, 2025, at 16:20, Filippo Falezza wrote:
> I am reaching out as I am still using the whatchanged option in git,
> which is very useful for my coding and handling merges.
> Please keep this option and do not break userspace.

This command is being removed because git-log(1) supplanted it over 12
years ago. Both commands use the same machinery, just with different
defaults.

You can replace the command with `git log` thus:

• 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 (not feeding the output to another program).

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