Hi Junio, On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > 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> > > --- > > Hmm. > > I just tried > > $ git commit -s -m ' pull: fast-forward "pull --rebase=true"' > > expecting that ":/^ pull:" would find it ;-) This patch would try to address a different concern, though: git write-object -w --stdin <<-EOF tree $(git rev-parse HEAD:) parent $(git rev-parse HEAD) author B O Gus <bo@xxxxxxx> 1234567890 +0000 committer F A Ke <fa@xxxxxx> 1234567890 +0000 There are two blank lines before the subject EOF It is not about leading whitespace in the commit subject, but about blank lines before it. Granted, our current tools do not generate such commit objects, but we accept them, and already handle them in some places. > Also 4/5 is another different class of true bugfix, I would suspect, > so let's take it on a separate topic that can be merged down to > older maintainance tracks. Sure! Thanks, Dscho -- 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