We are going to want this (so that we can set GIT_... variables to the
pieces to make git construct commits the way we want).
Both current call sites provide scalar context, so no functional
change.
$authline =~ m/$git_authline_re/o or
fail "unexpected commit author line format \`$authline'".
" (was generated from changelog Maintainer field)";
$authline =~ m/$git_authline_re/o or
fail "unexpected commit author line format \`$authline'".
" (was generated from changelog Maintainer field)";
+ return ($1,$2,$3) if wantarray;