Thanks for the tip!

On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Stephen Harding [off-list ref] writes:

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I just encountered this:

'git whatchanged' is nominated for removal.
If you still use this command, please add an extra
option, '--i-still-use-this', on the command line
and let us know you still use it by sending an e-mail
to [off-list ref].  Thanks.
fatal: refusing to run without --i-still-use-this


I use oh-my-zsh and I rely on the git aliases. I used this today:

which gwch
gwch: aliased to git whatchanged -p --abbrev-commit --pretty=medium

and apparently you want me to send you an email to prove that I, an
actual human really do use that ...

It is not about proving, and sending an email will not change our
plan, but it gives users an opportunity to tell us a use case where
no possible workaround exists, which we haven't anticipated.

You can change your alias to

    git log --no-merges -p --abbrev-commit --pretty=medium

and should get output identical to what you are getting.  Also, I
think "--pretty=medium" is the default.