Re: Generating patches/Cherry Picking for a large number of commits

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

git-format-patch | git-am pipeline has to work correctly, as it
originally was the way (modulo extra options) git-rebase was
implemented.  So yes, "git am <dir>" should understand and apply in
correct order result of "git format-patch -o <dir> <revspec>".

You are not making any sense.  rebase is done using --stdout and does not
rely on the intermediate files nor ordering of their names.