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Subject: Re: git log -z doesn't separate commits with NULs
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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").