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

> 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
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> #!/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"
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> 
> 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.