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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2025-10-14 13:40:52 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2025-10-14 13:40:52 -0700
commitb4c2504f0c28756e6bab33f15d59dc42bfb8192c (patch)
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parentGit 2.51 (diff)
parentBreakingChanges: remove claim about whatchanged reports (diff)
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Merge branch 'kh/you-still-use-whatchanged-fix' into maint-2.51
The "do you still use it?" message given by a command that is deeply deprecated and allow us to suggest alternatives has been updated. * kh/you-still-use-whatchanged-fix: BreakingChanges: remove claim about whatchanged reports whatchanged: remove not-even-shorter clause whatchanged: hint about git-log(1) and aliasing you-still-use-that??: help the user help themselves t0014: test shadowing of aliases for a sample of builtins git: allow alias-shadowing deprecated builtins git: move seen-alias bookkeeping into handle_alias(...) git: add `deprecated` category to --list-cmds Makefile: don’t add whatchanged after it has been removed
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/BreakingChanges.adoc2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/alias.adoc3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-whatchanged.adoc8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.adoc3
4 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/BreakingChanges.adoc b/Documentation/BreakingChanges.adoc
index f8d2eba061..c4985163c3 100644
--- a/Documentation/BreakingChanges.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/BreakingChanges.adoc
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ These features will be removed.
equivalent `git log --raw`. We have nominated the command for
removal, have changed the command to refuse to work unless the
`--i-still-use-this` option is given, and asked the users to report
- when they do so. So far there hasn't been a single complaint.
+ when they do so.
+
The command will be removed.
diff --git a/Documentation/config/alias.adoc b/Documentation/config/alias.adoc
index 2c5db0ad84..3c8fab3a95 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/alias.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/config/alias.adoc
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ alias.*::
after defining `alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD`, the invocation
`git last` is equivalent to `git cat-file commit HEAD`. To avoid
confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that
- hide existing Git commands are ignored. Arguments are split by
+ hide existing Git commands are ignored except for deprecated
+ commands. Arguments are split by
spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping are supported.
A quote pair or a backslash can be used to quote them.
+
diff --git a/Documentation/git-whatchanged.adoc b/Documentation/git-whatchanged.adoc
index d21484026f..436e219b7d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-whatchanged.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-whatchanged.adoc
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ WARNING
-------
`git whatchanged` has been deprecated and is scheduled for removal in
a future version of Git, as it is merely `git log` with different
-default; `whatchanged` is not even shorter to type than `log --raw`.
+defaults.
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -24,7 +24,11 @@ Shows commit logs and diff output each commit introduces.
New users are encouraged to use linkgit:git-log[1] instead. The
`whatchanged` command is essentially the same as linkgit:git-log[1]
-but defaults to showing the raw format diff output and skipping merges.
+but defaults to showing the raw format diff output and skipping merges:
+
+----
+git log --raw --no-merges
+----
The command is primarily kept for historical reasons; fingers of
many people who learned Git long before `git log` was invented by
diff --git a/Documentation/git.adoc b/Documentation/git.adoc
index 743b7b00e4..a2f0838b16 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git.adoc
@@ -219,7 +219,8 @@ If you just want to run git as if it was started in `<path>` then use
List commands by group. This is an internal/experimental
option and may change or be removed in the future. Supported
groups are: builtins, parseopt (builtin commands that use
- parse-options), main (all commands in libexec directory),
+ parse-options), deprecated (deprecated builtins),
+ main (all commands in libexec directory),
others (all other commands in `$PATH` that have git- prefix),
list-<category> (see categories in command-list.txt),
nohelpers (exclude helper commands), alias and config