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NAME
git-whatchanged - Show logs with differences each commit introduces
SYNOPSIS
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 default;
whatchanged is not even shorter to type than log --raw.
DESCRIPTION
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.
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
Git 2.51.0 2025-08-17 git-whatchanged(1)
git 2.51.0 - Generated Thu Aug 21 07:11:06 CDT 2025