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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Generating patches/Cherry Picking for a large number of commits
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> 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.