Re: Mistakes in commit log messages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 20:41:49 -0700
> Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> 
> > Also, it looks like your script doesn't recognize file names in a line
> > that starts with a semi-colon, as in this commit:
> 
> I fixed this case, though as far as I can tell, authors.el doesn't look 
> at lines like this. (I could be wrong, since I just read over that code 
> briefly.)

authors.el ignores such lines because they don't appear in ChangeLog
files: they are ignored when generating ChangeLog from the Git log.
(authors.el works on ChangeLog* files, not on the Git logs.)  But that
doesn't mean we don't want the file names in those logs to be correct;
this script we are discussing is not just for the benefit of producing
AUTHORS with less manual work, it is about our commit logs being
cleaner.

Thanks.