When there are blank lines at the beginning of a commit message, the pretty printing machinery already skips them when showing a commit subject (or the complete commit message). We shall henceforth do the same when reporting the commit subject after the user called git reset --hard <commit> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- builtin/reset.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/builtin/reset.c b/builtin/reset.c index acd6278..5c6206b 100644 --- a/builtin/reset.c +++ b/builtin/reset.c @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static void print_new_head_line(struct commit *commit) if (body) { const char *eol; size_t len; - body += 2; + body = skip_blank_lines(body + 2); eol = strchr(body, '\n'); len = eol ? eol - body : strlen(body); printf(" %.*s\n", (int) len, body); -- 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