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

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 04:48:43PM +0300, Nikolaj Shurkaev wrote:

Doesn't:

  git format-patch HEAD~3..HEAD SomePath

do what you want? It is certainly designed to, and it seems to work for
me.

It is not quite "designed to", though.

It happens to work that way, and I do not think we want to forbid its use,
but we would want to discourage anybody from blindly using it without
thinking if the end results suits his/her purpose (and the reason should
be obvious to those who think, the hint is "log message").