Johannes Meixner wrote: > it seems I am misspelled in the grep-2.13 ChangeLog file as > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Problem reported by Johannes Mercer in > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2012-06/msg00029.html>. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi Johannes, Sorry about that. We can't correct the error in our write-once git log, but the patch below fixes it so the ChangeLog generated for the next release will have the fix: >From 24a289b18f63d29e313f6192f7e07ec67f6c595e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 17:24:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] maint: make log typo correction reflect in generated ChangeLog * Makefile.am (gen-ChangeLog): Use --amend, now that we must make our first log correction. * build-aux/git-log-fix: New file. --- Makefile.am | 1 + build-aux/git-log-fix | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) create mode 100644 build-aux/git-log-fix diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 954d3ca..ba6c278 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ gen_start_date = 2009-11-27 gen-ChangeLog: $(AM_V_GEN)if test -d .git; then \ $(top_srcdir)/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog \ + --amend=$(srcdir)/build-aux/git-log-fix \ --since=$(gen_start_date) > $(distdir)/cl-t; \ rm -f $(distdir)/ChangeLog; \ mv $(distdir)/cl-t $(distdir)/ChangeLog; \ diff --git a/build-aux/git-log-fix b/build-aux/git-log-fix new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b06803a --- /dev/null +++ b/build-aux/git-log-fix @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +# This file is expected to be used via gitlog-to-changelog's --amend=FILE +# option. It specifies what changes to make to each given SHA1's commit +# log and metadata, using Perl-eval'able expressions. + +074842d3e3054714a495252e582886f0e4ace4e4 +# Correct spelling of name: +s/Mercer/Meixner/ -- 1.7.11.1.116.g8228a23
