Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> writes:

> Just like the pretty printing machinery, we should simply ignore empty
> lines at the beginning of the commit messages.
>
> This discrepancy was noticed when an early version of the rebase--helper
> produced commit objects with more than one empty line between the header
> and the commit message.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de>
> ---
> Published-As: https://github.com/dscho/git/releases/tag/leading-empty-lines-v1
>
>       Aaaaand another patch from the rebase--helper front. I guess I'll
>       call it a day with this one.

Makes sense.  This has a trivial textual conflict with cleanup
patches in flight, I think, but that is not a big problem.  It does
hint that we might want to find a library function that can replace
a hand-rolled while loop we are adding here, though ;-)

Perhaps cast this new behaviour in stone by adding a test?

Thanks.

>  commit.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
> index 3f4f371..7b00989 100644
> --- a/commit.c
> +++ b/commit.c
> @@ -415,6 +415,8 @@ int find_commit_subject(const char *commit_buffer, const 
> char **subject)
>               p++;
>       if (*p) {
>               p += 2;
> +             while (*p == '\n')
> +                     p++;
>               for (eol = p; *eol && *eol != '\n'; eol++)
>                       ; /* do nothing */
>       } else
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