[Savannah-hackers] Re: Duplicate diffs

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Richard Stallman wrote:

> There are duplications in these diff messages.  The unexelf.c change
> from version 1.40 to 1.41 appears twice, in two different digest
> messages.  Its change log entry appears three times in a single digest
> message--twice attributed to Gerd, and once to Jason Rumney.
> 
> That misattribution is especially suspect, because it suggests the
> possibility that something in the script is getting the wrong diffs
> and/or the wrong name.  Perhaps the duplicate entries were supposed to
> contain something else; perhaps whatever they should have included was
> omitted.

I think this is because the script doesn't act ont the branch vs trunk
commits correctly, and always produces diffs from the trunk.