diff --git a/contrib/ChangeLog b/contrib/ChangeLog
index f7fee0e871b8..6bb903cecfc6 100644
--- a/contrib/ChangeLog
+++ b/contrib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2012-12-01  Bernhard Reutner-Fischer  <aldot@gcc.gnu.org>
+
+	* testsuite-management/validate_failures.py
+	(IsInterestingResult): Only strip line a second time if we did split.
+	Rephrase return statement while at it.
+	(CollectSumFiles): Also ignore .git directory.
+
 2012-12-03  Diego Novillo  <dnovillo@google.com>
 
 	* testsuite-management/validate_failures.py: Fix stale
diff --git a/contrib/testsuite-management/validate_failures.py b/contrib/testsuite-management/validate_failures.py
index d02b575a3d63..ec51de91b6b1 100755
--- a/contrib/testsuite-management/validate_failures.py
+++ b/contrib/testsuite-management/validate_failures.py
@@ -209,11 +209,8 @@ def IsInterestingResult(line):
   """Return True if line is one of the summary lines we care about."""
   if '|' in line:
     (_, line) = line.split('|', 1)
-  line = line.strip()
-  for result in _VALID_TEST_RESULTS:
-    if line.startswith(result):
-      return True
-  return False
+    line = line.strip()
+  return any(line.startswith(result) for result in _VALID_TEST_RESULTS)
 
 
 def IsInclude(line):
@@ -307,8 +304,9 @@ def GetManifest(manifest_path):
 def CollectSumFiles(builddir):
   sum_files = []
   for root, dirs, files in os.walk(builddir):
-    if '.svn' in dirs:
-      dirs.remove('.svn')
+    for ignored in ('.svn', '.git'):
+      if ignored in dirs:
+        dirs.remove(ignored)
     for fname in files:
       if fname.endswith('.sum'):
         sum_files.append(os.path.join(root, fname))