On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 05:21:47PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:

quoted

I've seen  "troubleshooting" questions from git users
who got one of those long and well-described Hints
like e.g. detached head and default git init branch
when either the msg already spelled eveything out
or the msg was purely informational.

I didn't spell it out above, but what I had in mind was something very
simple... not at all ong and detailed; for instance:

   For interactive use, define a Git alias `git whatchanged`
   which runs `git log --raw --no-merges`.

I think that is good advice, but... it won't do anything until we
actually drop the whatchanged command, since until then we'll refuse to
override the command (even the crippled --i-still-use-this one).

We'd need something like the patch here:

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/20250830022718.GB567900@coredump.intra.peff.net/ (local)

-Peff