I am a bit busy right now and do not have time to dig into this, but I suspect the LF you are seeing at the end belongs to the commit log of the last entry, as I think -z is not about termination but separation. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html