Re: Remove old forgotten command: whatchanged

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> The only thing it does is to scratch an irrelevant itch by people
>> who peek the codebase and find an old command whose existence does
>> not even hurt them.  They may have too much time on their hand, but
>> that is not an excuse to waste other people's time by adding extra
>> makework on our plate, or changing the behaviour for people who use
>> the command without explanation.
>
> It's a maintenance burden 

I'm not really worried about the maintainance of a 20-lines long
function ...

> that confuses users.

... but I do agree that the doc is really confusing. It would be much
better if the doc could be reduced to:

"This is a synonym for linkgit:git-log[1] --raw --some --other ---options.
Please refer to the documentation of that command."

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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