Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2025-05-05

Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] whatchanged: remove when built with WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2025-05-05 20:57:55

Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] writes:
On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 05:58:13PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
quoted
As we made "git whatchanged" require "--i-still-use-this" and asked
the users to report if they still want to use it, the logical next
step is to allow us build Git without "whatchanged" to prepare for
its eventual removal.

If we were to follow the pattern established in 8ccc75c2 (remote:
announce removal of "branches/" and "remotes/", 2025-01-22), we can
do this together with the documentation update to officially list
that the command will be removed in the BreakingChanges document,
but let's just keep the changes separate just in case we want to
proceed a bit slower.
We'd also need to adjust Meson so that it doesn't install the
documentation anymore. So something like the below (untested) patch.
Thanks.
quoted hunk
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index b109d25e9c8..815b0334e53 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ lint-docs-meson:
 	awk "/^manpages = {$$/ {flag=1 ; next } /^}$$/ { flag=0 } flag { gsub(/^  \047/, \"\"); gsub(/\047 : [157],\$$/, \"\"); print }" meson.build | \
 		grep -v -e '#' -e '^$$' | \
 		sort >tmp-meson-diff/meson.adoc && \
-	ls git*.adoc scalar.adoc | grep -v -e git-bisect-lk2009.adoc -e git-pack-redundant.adoc -e git-tools.adoc >tmp-meson-diff/actual.adoc && \
+	ls git*.adoc scalar.adoc | grep -v -e git-bisect-lk2009.adoc -e git-pack-redundant.adoc -e git-whatchanged.adoc -e git-tools.adoc >tmp-meson-diff/actual.adoc && \
Yuck.
quoted hunk
diff --git a/Documentation/meson.build b/Documentation/meson.build
index 1433acfd310..2fe1a1369d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/meson.build
+++ b/Documentation/meson.build
@@ -158,7 +158,6 @@ manpages = {
   'git-verify-tag.adoc' : 1,
   'git-version.adoc' : 1,
   'git-web--browse.adoc' : 1,
-  'git-whatchanged.adoc' : 1,
   'git-worktree.adoc' : 1,
   'git-write-tree.adoc' : 1,
   'git.adoc' : 1,
@@ -207,6 +206,7 @@ manpages = {
 
 manpages_breaking_changes = {
   'git-pack-redundant.adoc' : 1,
+  'git-whatchanged.adoc' : 1,
 }
OK.

Thanks.
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