Daniel Veillard reported that the generated and VC'd NEWS file was causing trouble because the latest version contains trailing spaces, which conflicts with our server-side hook to prevent that. Here's the fix to avoid emitting those trailing spaces: From: Jim Meyering <meyering(a)redhat.com&gt; Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:01:26 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: don't emit trailing blanks into generated and VC'd NEWS file * docs/Makefile.am ($(top_builddir)/NEWS): Filter out trailing white space. --- docs/Makefile.am | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/Makefile.am b/docs/Makefile.am index 9ac2f6d..1125931 100644 --- a/docs/Makefile.am +++ b/docs/Makefile.am @@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ $(top_builddir)/NEWS: $(top_srcdir)/docs/news.xsl $(top_srcdir)/docs/news.html.i $(XSLTPROC) --nonet $(top_srcdir)/docs/news.xsl \ $(top_srcdir)/docs/news.html.in \ | perl -0777 -pe 's/\n\n+$$/\n/' \ + | perl -pe 's/[ \t]+$//' \ clean-local: -- 1.6.5.rc1.171.g3f463