Unfortunately if somebody commits a file using a message like: "added a new feature -------- removed an old feature" The second line will be identified as the end of the comment. The same for the end of a changelog with '======'. Using the right number of '-' or '=' fixes the problem temporarly until one commit a file with a number of '-' or '=' greater or equals to the cvs separator. PR: 8085 Submitted by: fred@castify.net (Frederic Lavigne) git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@272427 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68master