Subject: Re: [PATCH] Skip excessive blank lines before commit body

From: Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:50:54 +0100

Lars Hjemli wrote:
> This modifies pretty_print_commit() to make the output of git-rev-list and
> friends a bit more predictable.
> 
> A commit body starting with blank lines might be unheard-of, but still possible
> to create using git-commit-tree (so is bound to appear somewhere, sometime).
> 

Lovely. I was just looking in to doing the exact same thing myself.

For reference, there is a tool somewhere that creates CVS commit 
messages with an empty title-line. When imported to git, those empty 
lines remain and fuzz up gitk and qgit viewing ad nauseum. I'm guessing 
(and hoping) this patch would take care of it.

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