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

["Jonathan del Strother" <maillist@steelskies.com>]

On Dec 19, 2007 11:23 PM, René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> wrote:
> 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;
>

No luck with that, I'm afraid.