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

[Nikolaj Shurkaev <snnicky@gmail.com>]

Hello.

You were right. I added parameter --max-args=1 to xargs command and that 
started work as I wanted initially.
Thank you very much.

--
Nikolaj

23.02.2012 13:17, Johannes Sixt пишет:
> Am 23.02.2012 10:14, schrieb Nikolaj Shurkaev:
>> I wanted to generate several files with some statistics using "git log
>> -z" command.
>> I did something like this:
>> git log -z --patch HEAD~10..HEAD -- SomePathHere | xargs -0
>> --max-chars=1000000 ~/1.sh
>>
>> If I put
>> echo "started"
>> into the file  ~/1.sh I see that the file is called only once instead of
>> multiple times.
> That is because xargs calls the program with as many arguments as
> possible, unless directed otherwise. Put this in the script:
>
> 	echo "started $*"
>
> and repeat. Then try this:
>
>   ... | xargs -0 -n 1 ~/1.sh
>
> -- Hannes
>