git-whatchanged1
Show logs with differences each commit introduces
Usage
git whatchanged
<option> ...
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 defaults.
Overview
Shows commit logs and diff output each commit introduces.
New users are encouraged to use git-log(1) instead. The whatchanged command is essentially the same as git-log(1) 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 reading the Linux kernel mailing list are trained to type it.
Examples
git whatchanged -p v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi
Show as patches the commits since version v2.6.12 that changed any file in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories
git whatchanged --since="2 weeks ago" -- gitk
Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file gitk. The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the branch named gitk
Git
Part of the git(1) suite
Releases
11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 10 times.
--abbrev-commit until Debian 7 (Wheezy);
--encoding until Debian 7 (Wheezy);
--format until Debian 7 (Wheezy);
--max-count until Debian 4.0 (Etch);
--no-abbrev-commit until Debian 7 (Wheezy);
--no-notes until Debian 7 (Wheezy);
--notes until Debian 7 (Wheezy);
--oneline until Debian 7 (Wheezy);
--pretty until Debian 7 (Wheezy);
--show-notes until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze);
-m until Debian 7 (Wheezy);
-p until Debian 7 (Wheezy);
-r until Debian 7 (Wheezy).