From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:07:47 GMT
Subject: Re: git log -z doesn't separate commits with NULs
Message-ID: <7vy5rt2u0c.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120223193451.GB30132@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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").