Consistent with the pretty-printing machinery, we skip leading blank lines (if any) of existing commit messages. While Git itself only produces commit objects with a single empty line between commit header and commit message, it is legal to have more than one blank line (i.e. lines containing only white space, or no characters) at the beginning of the commit message, and the pretty-printing code already handles that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- builtin/commit.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c index 3f18942..1f6dbcd 100644 --- a/builtin/commit.c +++ b/builtin/commit.c @@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix, char *buffer; buffer = strstr(use_message_buffer, "\n\n"); if (buffer) - strbuf_addstr(&sb, buffer + 2); + strbuf_addstr(&sb, skip_blank_lines(buffer + 2)); hook_arg1 = "commit"; hook_arg2 = use_message; } else if (fixup_message) { -- 2.9.0.270.g810e421 -- 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