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-rw-r--r--top/maint.mk2
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ad0c05b9a6..e72ce70297 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-07-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+ maint.mk: avoid a sub-shell
+ * top/maint.mk (release-prep): Remove unneeded sub-shell.
+
2012-07-30 Akim Demaille <akim@lrde.epita.fr>
maint.mk: absolute VPATH issue
diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
index fa0280e3a4..6336e3a94a 100644
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -1388,7 +1388,7 @@ release-prep:
$(MAKE) update-NEWS-hash
perl -pi -e '$$. == 3 and print "$(gl_noteworthy_news_)\n\n\n"' $(srcdir)/NEWS
msg=$$($(emit-commit-log)) || exit 1; \
- (cd $(srcdir) && $(VC) commit -m "$$msg" -a)
+ cd $(srcdir) && $(VC) commit -m "$$msg" -a
# Override this with e.g., -s $(srcdir)/some_other_name.texi
# if the default $(PACKAGE)-derived name doesn't apply.