Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: > IMO `build-aux/gitlog-to-auctexlog` should gracefully fail > (e.g. generate an empty file, or put the Git error into that > file).
Hmm, build-aux/gitlog-to-auctexlog contains[1]: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- # If this is not a Git repository, just generate an empty ChangeLog. test -d .git || { >"$output" exit } --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Maybe Uwe has a .git directory in his setup, but it isn't a real .git directory as Git would expect? Footnotes: [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/auctex.git/tree/build-aux/gitlog-to-auctexlog#n71