Re: timeout command

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 6/2/2008 7:05 AM:
> |
> | I need a tool to automatically verify that ChangeLog
> | and diffs are consistent.
>
> New enough git supports pre-commit hooks.  I imagine we could probably
> come up with a way to reject patches where the list of files touched
> disagrees with the commit message, although I haven't attempted to do that
> yet.

FYI, but for a compound error, I would have noticed this.
I did run 'make distcheck' and even saw the usual traces
of .lzma tarballs:

  ===============================================================
  coreutils-6.12.10-265c4-dirty archives ready for distribution:
  coreutils-6.12.10-265c4-dirty.tar.gz
  coreutils-6.12.10-265c4-dirty.tar.lzma
  ===============================================================

however, my second error was in testing the wrong revision.
Although I'd just fetched from a private repo to the current
branch there (master), I'd neglected to sync the work area
from the repository.

The "-dirty" suffix should have tipped me off.