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| author | Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> | 2025-09-17 22:24:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2025-09-17 13:47:24 -0700 |
| commit | 5a31252702da61ddabc68f3f8ac7a2cffc19a542 (patch) | |
| tree | 42b1cad49854b23c99ce1ad0735380d871bd1c93 /builtin/log.c | |
| parent | you-still-use-that??: help the user help themselves (diff) | |
| download | git-5a31252702da61ddabc68f3f8ac7a2cffc19a542.tar.gz git-5a31252702da61ddabc68f3f8ac7a2cffc19a542.zip | |
whatchanged: hint about git-log(1) and aliasing
There have been quite a few `--i-still-use-this` user reports since Git
2.51.0 was released.[1][2] And it doesn’t seem like they are reading
the man page about the git-log(1) equivalent.
Tell them what options to plug into git-log(1), either as a replacement
command or as an alias.[3] That template produces almost the same
output[4] and is arguably a plug-in replacement. Concretely, add
an optional `hint` argument so that we can use it right after the
initial error line.
Also mention the same concrete options in the documentation while we’re
at it.
[1]: E.g.,
• https://lore.kernel.org/git/e1a69dea-bcb6-45fc-83d3-9e50d32c410b@5y5.one/
• https://lore.kernel.org/git/1011073f-9930-4360-a42f-71eb7421fe3f@chrispalmer.uk/#t
• https://lore.kernel.org/git/9fcbfcc4-79f9-421f-b9a4-dc455f7db485@acm.org/#t
• https://lore.kernel.org/git/83241BDE-1E0D-489A-9181-C608E9FCC17B@gmail.com/
[2]: The error message on 2.51.0 does tell them to report it, unconditionally
[3]: We allow aliasing deprecated builtins now for people who are very
used to the command name or just like it a lot
[4]: You only get different outputs if you happen to have empty
commits (no changes)[4]
[5]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20250825085428.GA367101@coredump.intra.peff.net/
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin/log.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/log.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/log.c b/builtin/log.c index c2f8bbf863..1d1e6e9130 100644 --- a/builtin/log.c +++ b/builtin/log.c @@ -543,7 +543,13 @@ int cmd_whatchanged(int argc, cmd_log_init(argc, argv, prefix, &rev, &opt, &cfg); if (!cfg.i_still_use_this) - you_still_use_that("git whatchanged"); + you_still_use_that("git whatchanged", + _("\n" + "hint: You can replace 'git whatchanged <opts>' with:\n" + "hint:\tgit log <opts> --raw --no-merges\n" + "hint: Or make an alias:\n" + "hint:\tgit config set --global alias.whatchanged 'log --raw --no-merges'\n" + "\n")); if (!rev.diffopt.output_format) rev.diffopt.output_format = DIFF_FORMAT_RAW; |