GIT-WHATCHANGED(1) Git Manual GIT-WHATCHANGED(1) 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)
gitwhatchanged \- Show logs with differences each commit introduces