+even be easier in the end:
+
+ git format-patch -p master..foo-hacks
+
+Generates a patch for each commit between master and the HEAD of
+foo-hacks, naming them
+
+ 0001-first-line-of-commit-message.patch
+ 0002-and-so-and-so-forth.patch
+ ...
+
+Due to, among other things, the cvs->git synchronization lag it is
+easy to get conflicts on version.lisp-expr so you may want to delay
+finalizing version.lisp-expr and the .msg file that cvsexportcommit
+produced by bumping the version and adding it to the commit message.