Merge branch 'release-v1.50' into matrix-org-hotfixes

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/scripts-dev/check-newsfragment b/scripts-dev/check-newsfragment

index af4de345df..c764011d6a 100755
--- a/scripts-dev/check-newsfragment
+++ b/scripts-dev/check-newsfragment
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ echo "--------------------------"
 echo
 
 matched=0
-for f in $(git diff --name-only FETCH_HEAD... -- changelog.d); do
-    # check that any modified newsfiles on this branch end with a full stop.
+for f in $(git diff --diff-filter=d --name-only FETCH_HEAD... -- changelog.d); do
+    # check that any added newsfiles on this branch end with a full stop.
     lastchar=$(tr -d '\n' < "$f" | tail -c 1)
     if [ "$lastchar" != '.' ] && [ "$lastchar" != '!' ]; then
         echo -e "\e[31mERROR: newsfragment $f does not end with a '.' or '!'\e[39m" >&2