From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:34:51 GMT
Subject: Re: git log -z doesn't separate commits with NULs
Message-ID: <20120223193451.GB30132@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4F4643BB.8090001@gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 04:48:43PM +0300, Nikolaj Shurkaev wrote:

> For example there are commits that affect not only files in folder A
> but files in folder B, C and so on.  If I do format-patch that will
> give me nice patches, but there are modifications of folders B, C and
> so on there.  I do not know a way to generate patches via format-patch
> that affect only files in folder A.

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.

-Peff