From ff17867bb63f7b339cf593bb1b554a86f5c976c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1992 17:25:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Don't munge $* when getting date from ChangeLog.

---
 lib-src/rcs2log | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib-src/rcs2log b/lib-src/rcs2log
index d5fe742e39f..279e78069fa 100755
--- a/lib-src/rcs2log
+++ b/lib-src/rcs2log
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # RCS to ChangeLog generator
 
-#	$Id: rcs2clog,v 1.2 1992/02/05 04:29:40 eggert Exp $
+#	$Id: rcs2clog,v 1.2 1992/02/05 04:31:18 eggert Exp eggert $
 
 # Generate a change log prefix from RCS/* and the existing ChangeLog (if any).
 # Output the new prefix to standard output.
@@ -35,9 +35,11 @@ done
 datearg=-d'>1970'
 if test -s ChangeLog
 then
-	date=`sed 1q <ChangeLog` || exit
-	set x $date; shift
-	datearg="-d>$1 $2 $3 $4 $5"
+	e='s/^\(...\) \(...\) \(..\) \(..:..:..\) \(....\) .*/\1 \2 \3 \4 \5/p; 1q'
+	date=`sed -n "$e" <ChangeLog` || exit
+	case $date in
+	?*) datearg="-d>$date"
+	esac
 fi
 
 rlogout=/tmp/chg$$