When trying to match a pattern in the commit subject, simply skip leading blank lines in the commit message. This is consistent with the pretty-printing machinery: it silently ignores leading blank lines in the commit object's body. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- sha1_name.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c index ca7ddd6..da354a5 100644 --- a/sha1_name.c +++ b/sha1_name.c @@ -912,7 +912,8 @@ static int get_sha1_oneline(const char *prefix, unsigned char *sha1, continue; buf = get_commit_buffer(commit, NULL); p = strstr(buf, "\n\n"); - matches = negative ^ (p && !regexec(®ex, p + 2, 0, NULL, 0)); + matches = negative ^ (p && !regexec(®ex, + skip_blank_lines(p + 2), 0, NULL, 0)); unuse_commit_buffer(commit, buf); if (matches) { -- 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