Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Ah, yeah, I think you're right. We call find_patch_start(), which thinks > the "---" line is the end of the commit message. That makes sense when > parsing trailers out of "format-patch" output, but not when we know we > have just the commit message. Yes, but that does not explain what we are seeing. If the code mistakenly thinks that the log message ends before that table, then it should have inserted the S-o-b: _before_ that table, but that is not happening. So there are three issues; (1) find-patch-start uses too weak a logic to find the beginning of a patch section (2) even if it found the right place, its caller does not tell "commit --amend -s" where the log message ends correctly and (3) some callchains that get there know they only have a log message but there is no way to take advantage of that information and skip the call to find-patch-start.
