Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > A signature attached to a signed commit, and the contents of the > commit that merged a signed tag, are both recorded as a value of an > object header field as a multi-line value, and are subject to the > formatting convention for multi-line values in the headers, with a > leading SP signaling that the rest of the line is a continuation of > the previous line. Most notably, an empty line in such a multi-line > value would result in a line with a sole SP on it. One question I had was whether git's requirement was strictly a space, or if it was following the rfc-822 convention where (if I remember correctly) a tab is equivalent, i.e. the LWSP production in the grammar. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc822#section-3.2 Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4