# Jenkins Git Plugin

3 messages from 2025-10-08 to 2025-10-08. Participants: Patton, Timothy, Kristoffer Haugsbakk, rsbecker@nexbridge.com.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/64275

## Patton, Timothy, 2025-10-08 17:10

Subject: Jenkins Git Plugin
Message-ID: <CAMnRnOWm8iV+JNcVReczh79pNX2zwsPcJm2z4a+8Uj3E1xcq5Q@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAMnRnOWm8iV%2BJNcVReczh79pNX2zwsPcJm2z4a%2B8Uj3E1xcq5Q%40mail.gmail.com

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I recently started seeing the following in build console output when
pulling global shared libraries from Git.  I need to see the change
history part of the build being performed.  How can I restore the
previous behavior of retrieving the changelog when the shared
libraries are pulled from Git?

Commit message: "updated getChangeset to include 5 history entries"
 > D:\git\bin\git.exe rev-list --no-walk
d30fad4563120956426e48bdfe1cbdb450bf932d # timeout=10
'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 <git@vger.kernel.org>.  Thanks.
fatal: refusing to run without --i-still-use-this
ERROR: Unable to retrieve changeset
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Error: D:\git\bin\git.exe whatchanged
--no-abbrev -M "--format=commit %H%ntree %T%nparent %P%nauthor %aN
<%aE> %ai%ncommitter %cN <%cE> %ci%n%n%w(0,4,4)%B" -n 1024

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## Kristoffer Haugsbakk, 2025-10-08 17:21

Subject: Re: Jenkins Git Plugin
Message-ID: <cf26c684-b5e5-4f54-a93f-85913e582a94@app.fastmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/cf26c684-b5e5-4f54-a93f-85913e582a94%40app.fastmail.com
In-Reply-To: <CAMnRnOWm8iV+JNcVReczh79pNX2zwsPcJm2z4a+8Uj3E1xcq5Q@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Oct 8, 2025, at 19:10, Patton, Timothy wrote:
> I recently started seeing the following in build console output when
> pulling global shared libraries from Git.  I need to see the change
> history part of the build being performed.  How can I restore the
> previous behavior of retrieving the changelog when the shared
> libraries are pulled from Git?
>
>[snip command output]

This is fixed in https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-76017

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## rsbecker@nexbridge.com, 2025-10-08 17:27

Subject: RE: Jenkins Git Plugin
Message-ID: <01e701dc3878$e11c9510$a355bf30$@nexbridge.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/01e701dc3878%24e11c9510%24a355bf30%24%40nexbridge.com
In-Reply-To: <CAMnRnOWm8iV+JNcVReczh79pNX2zwsPcJm2z4a+8Uj3E1xcq5Q@mail.gmail.com>

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On October 8, 2025 1:10 PM, Timothy Patton wrote:
>I recently started seeing the following in build console output when pulling global
>shared libraries from Git.  I need to see the change history part of the build being
>performed.  How can I restore the previous behavior of retrieving the changelog
>when the shared libraries are pulled from Git?
>
>Commit message: "updated getChangeset to include 5 history entries"
> > D:\git\bin\git.exe rev-list --no-walk
>d30fad4563120956426e48bdfe1cbdb450bf932d # timeout=10 '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
><git@vger.kernel.org>.  Thanks.
>fatal: refusing to run without --i-still-use-this
>ERROR: Unable to retrieve changeset
>hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Error: D:\git\bin\git.exe whatchanged --no-abbrev
>-M "--format=commit %H%ntree %T%nparent %P%nauthor %aN <%aE>
>%ai%ncommitter %cN <%cE> %ci%n%n%w(0,4,4)%B" -n 1024

Please contact the Jenkins GitSCM support group and ask them to fix the plugin to
use git log instead of git whatchanged.

--Randall


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