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.