Re: git log -z doesn't separate commits with NULs

Nikolaj Shurkaev [off-list ref] writes:

Thank you very much for your tips. They really helped me. I was trying
to create patches that would affect only some given files or
folders. By this moment I have the following:

GeneratePatches.sh
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#!/bin/bash
#parameter 1 - <since>..<to>
#parameter 2 - path to file
git log -z --reverse --format=email --patch "$1" -- "$2" | xargs
--null --max-args=1 ./CreatePatchFile.sh
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and CreatePatchFile.sh
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#!/bin/bash

myPatchNumber=$(ls ./*-patch.patch 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
let "myPatchNumber += 1"

patchFile="./"$(printf "%04d" $myPatchNumber)"-patch.patch"
echo "$@" > "$patchFile"
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I call
./GeneratePatches.sh HEAD~3..HEAD SomePath
and that produces something very similar to what I want.

Perhaps there is a better way to do that.

So what git-format-patch is lacking?

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Jakub Narebski