whatchanged is super useful!

whatchanged is super useful!

[Phil Hobbs]

I use git whatchanged all the time.  Please don't remove it!

Thanks

Phil Hobbs

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Re: whatchanged is super useful!

[Kristoffer Haugsbakk]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2025, at 23:44, Phil Hobbs wrote:
> I use git whatchanged all the time.  Please don't remove it!

It might be useful but everything it can do, git-log(1) can also do.

You can replace it with `git log` like so:

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

Or you can replace `--raw` with more modern alternatives like
`--name-only` or `--stat`.

Re: whatchanged is super useful!

[Junio C Hamano]

Phil Hobbs <pcdhobbs@electrooptical.net> writes:

> I use git whatchanged all the time.  Please don't remove it!

No, we will remove it.  What we wanted to hear readers ask was "what
can I use instead?"  And the answer is "git log --raw" or even
better "git log --stat", "git log --name-only", etc., depending on
your taste, all of them shorter to type than "git whatchanged".

Re: whatchanged is super useful!

[Phil Hobbs]

Fair enough, thanks. 

> On Sep 25, 2025, at 17:55, Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2025, at 23:44, Phil Hobbs wrote:
>> I use git whatchanged all the time.  Please don't remove it!
> 
> It might be useful but everything it can do, git-log(1) can also do.
> 
> You can replace it with `git log` like so:
> 
> • Given: `git whatchanged <opts>`
> • Replace with: `git log <opts> --no-merges --raw`
> 
> Or you can replace `--raw` with more modern alternatives like
> `--name-only` or `--stat`.