I omitted the ChangeLog and git log entry for the commit-msg script, now fixed in my private branch as follows:
On 15 Nov 2011, at 12:04, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > > The FSF cares about keeping track of all authors of patches to its > projects, but Git doesn't provide obvious support for multi-author > changesets. Consensus seems to be forming around the use of extra > Signed-off-by inspired lines in the log message formatted as > `Co-authored-by: A U Thor <em...@example.com>' for round-tripping > multi-author commits between version control systems. > * gitlog-to-changelog: Extract `Co-authored-by:' lines from the git > log message and output in standard ChangeLog multi-author format. * scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg: New script. Put this in .git/hooks to diagnose missing or malformed Co-authored-by lines at commit time. > Reported by Peter Rosin <p...@lysator.liu.se> Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)