diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 480db93d..bb3484a7 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Contributors:
 	Andreas Nilsson <andreasn@gnome.org>
 	Benjamin Podszun <benjamin.podszun@gmail.com>
 	Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand.lorentz@gmail.com>
+	Gabriel Burt <gabriel.burt@gmail.com>
 	Garrett LeSage <garrett@novell.com>
 	Hylke Bons <hylkebons@gmail.com>
 	Jakub Steiner <jimmac@redhat.com>
@@ -37,5 +38,5 @@ Contributors:
 	Vincent Untz <vuntz@gnome.org>
 	Will Thompson <will@willthompson.co.uk>
 
+	Thanks very much!
 
-Thanks very much!
diff --git a/SparkleLib/SparkleRepo.cs b/SparkleLib/SparkleRepo.cs
index 7d9be6bd..e0c5d00d 100644
--- a/SparkleLib/SparkleRepo.cs
+++ b/SparkleLib/SparkleRepo.cs
@@ -916,14 +916,14 @@ namespace SparkleLib {
             
             entries.Add (last_entry);
 
-            var merge_regex = new Regex (@"commit ([a-z0-9]{40})\n" +
+            Regex merge_regex = new Regex (@"commit ([a-z0-9]{40})\n" +
                                 "Merge: .+ .+\n" +
                                 "Author: (.+) <(.+)>\n" +
                                 "Date:   ([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2}) " +
                                 "([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2}) .([0-9]{4})\n" +
                                 "*", RegexOptions.Compiled);
 
-            var non_merge_regex = new Regex (@"commit ([a-z0-9]{40})\n" +
+            Regex non_merge_regex = new Regex (@"commit ([a-z0-9]{40})\n" +
                                 "Author: (.+) <(.+)>\n" +
                                 "Date:   ([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2}) " +
                                 "([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2}) .([0-9]{4})\n" +