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

From: Nikolaj Shurkaev <snnicky@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 23, 2012, 13:48 UTC
Message-ID: <4F4643BB.8090001@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m34nuhelnf.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

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.

This is why I wrote those scripts.

23.02.2012 16:15, Jakub Narebski пишет:

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> Nikolaj Shurkaev<snnicky@gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> Thank you very much for your tips. They really helped me. I was trying
>> to create patches that would affect only some given files or
>> folders. By this moment I have the following:
>>
>> GeneratePatches.sh
>> ---------------------
>> #!/bin/bash
>> #parameter 1 -<since>..<to>
>> #parameter 2 - path to file
>> git log -z --reverse --format=email --patch "$1" -- "$2" | xargs
>> --null --max-args=1 ./CreatePatchFile.sh
>> ---------------------
>>
>> and CreatePatchFile.sh
>> ---------------------
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> myPatchNumber=$(ls ./*-patch.patch 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
>> let "myPatchNumber += 1"
>>
>> patchFile="./"$(printf "%04d" $myPatchNumber)"-patch.patch"
>> echo "$@">  "$patchFile"
>> ---------------------
>>
>> I call
>> ./GeneratePatches.sh HEAD~3..HEAD SomePath
>> and that produces something very similar to what I want.
>>
>> Perhaps there is a better way to do that.
> So what git-format-patch is lacking?
>