Hi Jim, The git server at savannah now rejects the normal form of module descriptions. I got this error message:
modules/pipe-filter:34: ends with blank lines. error: hooks/update exited with error code 2 error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master I understand that for .c, .h, .texi and many other files, a blank line at the end of the file is an indication of sloppiness. Not so for gnulib module description files. A gnulib modules description formally consists of sections. Every section consists of one or more lines. The first line of a section is a special keyword, followed by a colon (such as 'Makefile.am:'). Then comes a number of content lines. At the end comes - by convention - a blank line. The sections are in arbitrary order. Because a blank line actually belongs to the section that started before it (see how it's parsed in gnulib-tool: variable sed_extract_prog), it's not a separator. Therefore it's perfectly normal that module descriptions end in 1 blank line. Likewise for ChangeLog files: They consist of entries, each ending with a blank line. Therefore, normally, a ChangeLog file ends with a blank line. Can you please exempt the files under modules/ and the ChangeLog files from this hooks/update check? Bruno
