On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 05:21:47PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ -Peff
