[PATCH 2/2] gitlog-to-changelog: trim trailing white space

[Paul Eggert]

* build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog (main):
Trim trailing white space from commit message lines.
This is helpful for processing the GNU Emacs repository,
which dates back to 1985 and contains a lot of such lines.
---
 ChangeLog                     | 6 ++++++
 build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ffbe0f5..e645adc 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 2015-03-20  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
 
+       gitlog-to-changelog: trim trailing white space
+       * build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog (main):
+       Trim trailing white space from commit message lines.
+       This is helpful for processing the GNU Emacs repository,
+       which dates back to 1985 and contains a lot of such lines.
+
        gitlog-to-changelog: new option --ignore-matching
        * build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog (usage, git_dir_option, main):
        Support new option --ignore-matching=PAT, which ignores all
diff --git a/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog b/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog
index 747353a..4fa4f29 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 = '2015-03-20 22:09'; # UTC
+my $VERSION = '2015-03-21 01:01'; # UTC
 # The definition above must lie within the first 8 lines in order
 # for the Emacs time-stamp write hook (at end) to update it.
 # If you change this file with Emacs, please let the write hook
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ sub git_dir_option($)
           $rest =~ s/^\s*\(cherry picked from commit [\da-f]+\)\n//m;
         }
 
-      my @line = split "\n", $rest;
+      my @line = split /\s*\n/, $rest;
       my $author_line = shift @line;
       defined $author_line
         or die "$ME:$.: unexpected EOF\n";
-- 
2.1.0