If a line in a patch starts with "--- " it will be deemed malformed unless it also contains the proper diff header format. This situation can happen with a valid patch if it has a line starting with "-- " and that line is removed. This patch just removes the check in git-contacts. Signed-off-by: Lars Gullik Bjønnes <larsbj@xxxxxxxxxx> --- contrib/contacts/git-contacts | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/contacts/git-contacts b/contrib/contacts/git-contacts index 428cc1a..dbe2abf 100755 --- a/contrib/contacts/git-contacts +++ b/contrib/contacts/git-contacts @@ -96,8 +96,6 @@ sub scan_patches { next unless $id; if (m{^--- (?:a/(.+)|/dev/null)$}) { $source = $1; - } elsif (/^--- /) { - die "Cannot parse hunk source: $_\n"; } elsif (/^@@ -(\d+)(?:,(\d+))?/ && $source) { my $len = defined($2) ? $2 : 1; push @{$sources->{$source}{$id}}, [$1, $len] if $len; -- 1.9.0 -- Lgb -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html