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Teemu Likonen kirjoitti:

> Adam's 'git graph' is a way of viewing log (in terminal environment),
> it looks very similar to 'git log --pretty=oneline' and it accepts
> very much the same command line options. That's why I see 'git log'
> being logical place for such functionality.
>
> Actually, to me it would be more logical if 'git whatchanged' was
> 'git log --changed' or '--verbose / -v' something.

May I add that I'm the kind of user who only understands the porcelain 
Git. In my mindset it's best when commands are in logical units by 
their functionality (from user's point of view).

I see 'git log' as a command for studying history log and to me 'git 
whatchanged' sounds like some user's personal _alias_ to 'git 
log --raw --full-history --always' or something (thanks Jeff). 
Similarly 'git graph' sounds like an alias to 'git log --pretty=graph' 
for someone who uses this a lot.