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

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Feb 23, 2012, 10:35 UTC
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Nikolaj Shurkaev <snnicky@gmail.com> writes:
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> 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.

If you want the command to be called once for each commit you need to pass --max-args=1 to xargs. Otherwise xargs will cumulate the arguments until --max-chars is reached, and the command is expected to loop over them.

Andreas.
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