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changeset 10341:973c3d3ff40f
gitlog-to-changelog: give better diagnostic for failed pipe-open
* build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog: Improve error message: suggest
that the version of Git may be too old.
| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:20:22 +0200 |
| parents | 6c358c1efb0b |
| children | ba4baf9b29e2 |
| files | ChangeLog build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2008-08-18 Ben Pfaff <blp@gnu.org> + + gitlog-to-changelog: give better diagnostic for failed pipe-open + * build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog: Improve error message: suggest + that the version of Git may be too old. + 2008-08-18 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> * m4/autobuild.m4: Use TZ=UTC to avoid time zone complexity. Use
--- a/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog +++ b/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/usr/bin/perl # Convert git log output to ChangeLog format. -my $VERSION = '2008-02-10 10:03'; # UTC +my $VERSION = '2008-08-19 05:01'; # UTC # The definition above must lie within the first 8 lines in order # for the Emacs time-stamp write hook (at end) to update it. # If you change this file with Emacs, please let the write hook @@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ my @cmd = (qw (git log --log-size), "--since=$since_date", '--pretty=format:%ct %an <%ae>%n%n%s%n%b%n'); open PIPE, '-|', @cmd - or die "$ME: failed to run `". quoted_cmd (@cmd) ."': $!\n"; + or die ("$ME: failed to run `". quoted_cmd (@cmd) ."': $!\n" + . "(Is your Git too old? Version 1.5.1 or later is required.)\n"); my $prev_date_line = ''; while (1)