From: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:54:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Cope with completely empty lines within the Changes file.
X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=84fd1186674f7e16cbe42e2947846d025465181d;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git

Cope with completely empty lines within the Changes file.
Better diagnostics on "malformed" lines.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@25656
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diff --git a/Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl b/Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl
index fa5f863..a52e090 100644
--- a/Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl
+++ b/Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl
@@ -124,12 +124,14 @@ while (<>) {
     $log = $_;
     my $prefix = " " x length $1;
     LOG: while (<>) {
+      next if /^$/;
       if (s/^$prefix//) {
 	$log .= $_;
       } elsif (/^\s+Branch:/) {
 	last LOG;
       } else {
-	die "Malformed log end with $_";
+	chomp;
+	die "Malformed log end with '$_'";
       }
     }
   }