FYI, a minor bug fix:
>From e15863f1ee27315eaa63e83ad2c17d832d64b951 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:00:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gitlog-to-changelog: don't malfunction when name contains
%-directive
* build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog (main): Don't let a %-directive
in a name string cause trouble. E.g., with a user name of "%s",
gitlog-to-changelog would fail with "Missing argument in sprintf at..."
---
ChangeLog | 7 +++++++
build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0e5f204..2e8ff4e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2011-12-30 Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
+
+ gitlog-to-changelog: don't malfunction when name contains %-directive
+ * build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog (main): Don't let a %-directive
+ in a name string cause trouble. E.g., with a user name of "%s",
+ gitlog-to-changelog would fail with "Missing argument in sprintf at..."
+
2011-12-30 Gary V. Vaughan <g...@gnu.org>
gitlog-to-changelog: Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes == (tiny change)
diff --git a/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog b/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog
index 529d7be..a3b9fe3 100755
--- a/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog
+++ b/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ eval '(exit $?0)' && eval 'exec perl -wS "$0" ${1+"$@"}'
if 0;
# Convert git log output to ChangeLog format.
-my $VERSION = '2011-12-30 17:43'; # UTC
+my $VERSION = '2011-12-30 17:48'; # UTC
# The definition above must lie within the first 8 lines in order
# for the Emacs time-stamp write hook (at end) to update it.
# If you change this file with Emacs, please let the write hook
@@ -255,8 +255,8 @@ sub parse_amend_file($)
my $tiny = (grep (/^Copyright-paperwork-exempt:\s+[Yy]es$/, @line)
? ' (tiny change)' : '');
- my $date_line = sprintf "%s $2$tiny\n",
- strftime ("%F", localtime ($1));
+ my $date_line = sprintf "%s %s$tiny\n",
+ strftime ("%F", localtime ($1)), $2;
my @coauthors = grep /^Co-authored-by:.*$/, @line;
# Omit meta-data lines we've already interpreted.
--
1.7.8.1.391.g2c2ad
