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git-whatchanged - Show logs with differences each commit introduces

git whatchanged <option>...

git whatchanged has been deprecated and is scheduled for removal in a future version of Git, as it is merely git log with different defaults.

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:

git log --raw --no-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.

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

Part of the git(1) suite

2025-10-26 Git 2.51.2