Merge pull request #1467 from carlosmn/commit-parse

commit: correctly detect the start of the commit message

2 files changed, 30 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/commit.c b/src/commit.c
index e2d3d346b..c7b83ed43 100644
--- a/src/commit.c
+++ b/src/commit.c
@@ -189,8 +189,8 @@ int git_commit__parse_buffer(git_commit *commit, const void *data, size_t len)
 		buffer = eoln;
 	}
 
-	/* skip blank lines */
-	while (buffer < buffer_end - 1 && *buffer == '\n')
+	/* buffer is now at the end of the header, double-check and move forward into the message */
+	if (buffer < buffer_end && *buffer == '\n')
 		buffer++;
 
 	/* parse commit message */
diff --git a/tests-clar/commit/parse.c b/tests-clar/commit/parse.c
index 95c628588..b99d27991 100644
--- a/tests-clar/commit/parse.c
+++ b/tests-clar/commit/parse.c
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ void test_commit_parse__entire_commit(void)
          );
 
 		if (!i)
-			cl_assert_equal_s("\n", git_commit_message(commit));
+			cl_assert_equal_s("", git_commit_message(commit));
 		else
 			cl_assert(git__prefixcmp(
 				git_commit_message(commit), "a simple commit which works") == 0);
@@ -366,3 +366,30 @@ void test_commit_parse__details0(void) {
 	}
 }
 
+void test_commit_parse__leading_lf(void)
+{
+	git_commit *commit;
+	const char *buffer =
+"tree 1810dff58d8a660512d4832e740f692884338ccd\n\
+parent e90810b8df3e80c413d903f631643c716887138d\n\
+author Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com> 1273848544 +0200\n\
+committer Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com> 1273848544 +0200\n\
+\n\
+\n\
+\n\
+This commit has a few LF at the start of the commit message";
+	const char *message =
+"\n\
+\n\
+This commit has a few LF at the start of the commit message";
+
+	commit = (git_commit*)git__malloc(sizeof(git_commit));
+	memset(commit, 0x0, sizeof(git_commit));
+	commit->object.repo = g_repo;
+
+	cl_git_pass(git_commit__parse_buffer(commit, buffer, strlen(buffer)));
+
+	cl_assert_equal_s(message, git_commit_message(commit));
+
+	git_commit__free(commit);
+}