unexpected behavior with `git log --skip filename`

The "--skip" option to "git log" did not behave as I expected, but I'm not sure whether this was user error, unclear documentation, or a bug. Specifically, I ran the following, intending to find the previous revision of a given file:

git log --skip=1 -n 1 --oneline some-filename

My expectation was that this would behave the same as:

git log -n 2 --oneline some-filename |tail -n 1

Instead, the --skip=1 parameter seemed to be ignored. After I tried several different values, it appears that the commits are skipped before path matching with "some-filename".

Is this the intended behavior? If so, should the documentation be clarified by changing "Note that they are applied before commit ordering and formatting options, such as --reverse" to something like "Note that they are applied before path matching, commit ordering, and formatting options, such as --reverse"?

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