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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Am I mistaken in thinking that the rest of git always use terminators,
> and not separators for records output?

Actually, for normal "git log", separator semantics is the right
thing to use.  You do not want to add an additional trailing
newline when you show only one.  Compare these two to see what I
mean:

	$ git log -1
        $ git log -2

The problem is with --pretty=format.