On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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/ Indeed. I saw your patch in the other thread and had it in mind when composing my earlier email, even though I didn't specifically mention it (though I probably should have) since I was more focused on raising the point that -- given the recent spate of muscle-memory / mnemonic-value argument emails -- the existing hints in Kristoffer's patch series may be insufficient to quell future emails.
