What Changed?

If you want to know what has changed at each commit in your Git history, then just ask git whatchanged.

$ git whatchanged

commit ddc929c03f5d629af6e725b690f1a4d2804bc2e5
Author: jbranchaud <jbranchaud@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 12 14:04:12 2017 -0600

    Add the source to the latest til

:100644 100644 f6e7638... 2b192e1... M  elixir/compute-md5-digest-of-a-string.md

commit 65ecb9f01876bb1a7c2530c0df888f45f5a11cbb
Author: jbranchaud <jbranchaud@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Feb 11 18:34:25 2017 -0600

    Add Compute md5 Digest Of A String as an Elixir til

:100644 100644 5af3ca2... 7e4794f... M  README.md
:000000 100644 0000000... f6e7638... A  elixir/compute-md5-digest-of-a-string.md

...

This is an old command that is mostly equivalent to git-log. In fact, the man page for git-whatchanged says:

New users are encouraged to use git-log(1) instead.

The difference is that git-whatchanged shows you the changed files in their raw format which can be useful if you know what you are looking for.

See man git-whatchanged for more details.

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