Odd error message from Git hook

[Andrew Pinski]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM Gerald Pfeifer via Overseers
<overseers@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> I saw this last month, where there were spaces instead of a tab - so a
> diagnosis is correct, just the specific error message is off: That line
> definitely should not start with a tab.
>
> Who can help and address that?
>
> Gerald
>
>
> remote: *** The following commit was rejected by your hooks.commit-extra-checker script (status: 1)
> remote: *** commit: 7fde41ebe7a61b6b549c160cb3bb8374e6f4730f
> remote: *** ChangeLog format failed:
> remote: *** ERR: line should start with a tab: "Signed-off-by:  Jonathan Grant <jg@jguk.org>"
> remote: ***
> remote: *** Please see: https://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html#ChangeLogs
> remote: *** remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/trunk

This error message is coming from
`contrib/gcc-changelog/git_check_commit.py` (and
`contrib/gcc-changelog/git_commit.py`) rather than anything overseers
controls.

Thanks,
Andrew

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