Re: Serious bug with pretty format strings & empty bodies?

["René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>]

Jonathan del Strother schrieb:
> On Dec 19, 2007 6:44 PM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Could you try
>>
>>     git cat-file 18d2480ab689b483ef1ebbdb3f7420904049ba0b
>>
>> (or any other problematic commit) and post its output here?
> 
> You mean git cat-file commit ... ?
> I get the normal output, but the problematic commits don't show a
> newline character at the end of the cat-file output.

Just a shot in the dark: does this patch on top of master make a difference?

diff --git a/pretty.c b/pretty.c
index 9db75b4..5f95a59 100644
--- a/pretty.c
+++ b/pretty.c
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ static void parse_commit_header(struct format_commit_context *context)
 		if (i == eol) {
 			state++;
 			/* strip empty lines */
-			while (msg[eol + 1] == '\n')
+			while (msg[eol] == '\n' && msg[eol + 1] == '\n')
 				eol++;
 		} else if (!prefixcmp(msg + i, "author ")) {
 			context->author.off = i + 7;