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| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@gnu.org> | 2008-08-19 08:20:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-08-19 08:20:22 +0200 |
| commit | 9462d43fbc0d873ee7e667ba952616d53b8585e4 (patch) | |
| tree | 5e8b839a17b8ffb73aa1093fd41b88028e0d9d81 /build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog | |
| parent | e8ce1f16994aebc497cb91159149ec33baeadfe8 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-9462d43fbc0d873ee7e667ba952616d53b8585e4.tar.gz | |
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.
Diffstat (limited to 'build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog')
| -rwxr-xr-x | build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog b/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog index 3efdb6ddbb..50b1b2fc89 100755 --- 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 $VERSION = '2008-08-19 05:01'; # UTC # The definition above must lie within the first 8 lines in order # for the Emacs time-stamp write hook (at end) to update it. # If you change this file with Emacs, please let the write hook @@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ sub quoted_cmd(@) my @cmd = (qw (git log --log-size), "--since=$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) |