Teach append_signoff to detect whether a blank line exists at the position that the signed-off-by line will be added, and avoid adding an additional one if one already exists. This is necessary to allow format-patch to add a s-o-b to a patch with no commit message without adding an extra newline. A following patch will make format-patch use this function rather than the append_signoff implementation inside log-tree.c. Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <bcasey@xxxxxxxxxx> --- sequencer.c | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c index 015cb58..404b786 100644 --- a/sequencer.c +++ b/sequencer.c @@ -1118,11 +1118,15 @@ void append_signoff(struct strbuf *msgbuf, int ignore_footer, unsigned flag) for (i = msgbuf->len - 1 - ignore_footer; i > 0 && msgbuf->buf[i - 1] != '\n'; i--) ; /* do nothing */ - if (i) - has_footer = has_conforming_footer(msgbuf, &sob, ignore_footer); - - if (!has_footer) - strbuf_splice(msgbuf, msgbuf->len - ignore_footer, 0, "\n", 1); + if (msgbuf->buf[i] != '\n') { + if (i) + has_footer = has_conforming_footer(msgbuf, &sob, + ignore_footer); + + if (!has_footer) + strbuf_splice(msgbuf, msgbuf->len - ignore_footer, 0, + "\n", 1); + } if (has_footer != 3 && (!no_dup_sob || has_footer != 2)) strbuf_splice(msgbuf, msgbuf->len - ignore_footer, 0, -- 1.8.1.1.450.g0327af3 -- 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