On Thu, 17 Nov 2022, 09:08 Jonathan Wakely, <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2022, 01:31 Zopolis0 via Gcc-help, <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I was trying to add a changelog to my commits, starting with e4f70d4
>> on my msterstable branch
>> (https://github.com/Zopolis4/gcj/commits/msterstable).
>>
>> I used an interactive rebase to get back to that commit and then soft
>> reset it, and attempted to run git gcc-commit-mklog. This is the error
>> I got:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/home/zopolis4/gcj/contrib/mklog.py", line 368, in <module>
>>     output = generate_changelog(data, args.no_functions,
>>   File "/home/zopolis4/gcj/contrib/mklog.py", line 165, in
>> generate_changelog
>>     diff = PatchSet(data)
>>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/unidiff/patch.py", line 460, in
>> __init__
>>     self._parse(data, encoding=encoding, metadata_only=metadata_only)
>>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/unidiff/patch.py", line 548, in
>> _parse
>>     current_file._parse_hunk(line, diff, encoding, metadata_only)
>>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/unidiff/patch.py", line 282, in
>> _parse_hunk
>>     for diff_line_no, line in diff:
>>   File "/usr/lib/python3.10/codecs.py", line 322, in decode
>>     (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in position
>> 3125: invalid start byte
>>
>> What should I do?
>>
>
>
> You can just commit without using the mklog utility. Write the commit msg
> by hand.
>


You should probably also figure out why you have invalid utf-8 in the diff,
but that's up to you.