When showing a tag, our header parsing finishes with the offset pointing to the newline separating the tag header from the tag body. This means that the printed body will always start with a newline. However, we also add an extra newline when printing the tagger information. This leads to an ugly double-newline: $ git show v1.6.3 tag v1.6.3 Tagger: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed May 6 18:16:47 2009 -0700 GIT 1.6.3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- ... This patch removes the extra newline from the end of the tagger headers. This is a better solution than suppressing the separator newline, because it retains the behavior for tags which have no tagger. E.g., "git show v0.99" will continue to look like: $ git show v0.99 tag v0.99 Test-release for wider distribution. ... Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- I tried to consider the output for real-world cases. In theory, you could have a corrupted tag with not only no body, but no newline separator. Then it would display as: tag foo commit ... with no extra newline. But since nothing should be generating such a tag, I don't think it is a problem. builtin-log.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-log.c b/builtin-log.c index 0c2fa0a..b05796d 100644 --- a/builtin-log.c +++ b/builtin-log.c @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ static void show_tagger(char *buf, int len, struct rev_info *rev) pp_user_info("Tagger", rev->commit_format, &out, buf, rev->date_mode, git_log_output_encoding ? git_log_output_encoding: git_commit_encoding); - printf("%s\n", out.buf); + printf("%s", out.buf); strbuf_release(&out); } -- 1.6.4.rc1.174.g317bf.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html