# git-whatchanged(1) Manual Page

## NAME

git-whatchanged - Show logs with difference each commit introduces

## SYNOPSIS

    git whatchanged <option>…​

## DESCRIPTION

Shows commit logs and diff output each commit introduces.

New users are encouraged to use linkgit:git-log[1] instead. The `whatchanged` command is essentially the same as linkgit:git-log[1] but defaults to show the raw format diff output and to skip merges.

The command is kept primarily for historical reasons; fingers of many people who learned Git long before `git log` was invented by reading 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 linkgit:git[1] suite