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Re: git log -z doesn't separate commits with NULs

From
Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Date
Feb 23, 2012, 10:02 UTC
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On 23/02/12 09:14, Nikolaj Shurkaev wrote:
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> Hello all.
>
> I wanted to generate several files with some statistics using "git log
> -z" command.
> I did something like this:
> git log -z --patch HEAD~10..HEAD -- SomePathHere | xargs -0
> --max-chars=1000000 ~/1.sh
>
> If I put
> echo "started"
> into the file ~/1.sh I see that the file is called only once instead of
> multiple times.
>
> I'm newbie to xargs, thus I tested with and that worked as I expected.
> find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ./1.sh
> That produced a lost of "started" lines.
>
> Thus I suspect there is a but in git log -z command and that doesn't
> "Separate the commits with NULs instead of with new newlines." as
> promised in the documents.
> Is my understanding correct or I don't understand the documentation or
> somehow pass wrong parameters into git log?

Just a guess, but doesn't the "--patch" option to git log ask it to produce a patch output? Surely that will override the -z: patch will not be expecting NULs.

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>
> Thank you.
> Best regards,
> Nikolaj
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  6. Jeff KingFeb 23, 2012
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