From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: Remove old forgotten command: whatchanged Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 17:24:18 +0200 Message-ID: References: <52027B17.7040602@googlemail.com> <7vtxj1crv6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Junio C Hamano , Stefan Beller , Git List To: Ramkumar Ramachandra X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 08 17:26:36 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V7S6k-00059L-Pb for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Aug 2013 17:26:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757898Ab3HHP0b (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Aug 2013 11:26:31 -0400 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:47197 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965894Ab3HHPZJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Aug 2013 11:25:09 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by rominette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r78FOHDU032407 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 8 Aug 2013 17:24:17 +0200 Received: from anie.imag.fr ([129.88.7.32]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1V7S4Z-00073y-8N; Thu, 08 Aug 2013 17:24:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Ramkumar Ramachandra's message of "Thu, 8 Aug 2013 20:43:53 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Thu, 08 Aug 2013 17:24:18 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: r78FOHDU032407 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1376580258.92422@4PqkINULTazM2W6W9Ch8EQ Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ramkumar Ramachandra writes: > Matthieu Moy wrote: >> ... but I do agree that the doc is really confusing. It would be much >> better if the doc could be reduced to: >> >> "This is a synonym for linkgit:git-log[1] --raw --some --other ---options. >> Please refer to the documentation of that command." > > I don't think there's an exact correspondence with any combination of > command-line options. Perhaps we can describe it in words, and ask > people to use log instead? I'd say either this, or add the missing features to "git log" to make my suggestion possible (after all, if some people like "git whatchanged", then maybe the feature would be of interest to "git log" users ?). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/