Re: gnulib overrides git-log-fix upon upgrade?

[Pádraig Brady]

On 04/19/2014 01:07 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> But wait...  just to verify before pushing this...
> 
> On 04/18/2014 07:59 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On 04/18/2014 11:06 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
>>>
>>> A recent change added a stub "git-log-fix" file to gnulib:
>>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commit;h=ce457d622d947d8aa3e325d98a2818d097e7fec9
>>>
>>  Good point!
>>
>> Attached is a gnulib patch to revert the recent changes,
>> and a GNU hello patch to improve the gen_Changelog target
>> to make git-log-fix optional.
>>
> 
> This commit (which added "git-fix-log") was done because of an error
> another user reported, where a non-existing 'git-log-fix' caused a problem:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2014-03/msg00082.html

right, but removing both recent changes should avoid this error

> So perhaps creating 'git-fix-log' is still needed?
> 
> And before that, the change happened because of a different
> issue:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commit;h=1589a8ab49dc714198d1003f745fe9c9fd5c3256
> 
> (which I reported, so I'm sorry for all this mess to begin with...)
> 
> There seems to be some delicate interplay here...

The gnu hello patch should handle this case on bsd also I'm guessing

thanks,
Pádraig.