From: PMEase <robin@pmease.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 06:01:06 GMT
Subject: Re: How to get the original raw commit message without removing extra leading/trailing line breaks
Message-ID: <5DAF0ABA-7905-491B-A1DC-291A2D7C2BB4@pmease.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq5yny62s1.fsf@gitster.g>

Hi Junio, 

Thanks for your response. "git cat-file" prints the commit message without leading space on each line, however extra leading/trailing line breaks of the commit message is still removed.

> On Mar 28, 2022, at 1:53 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> PMEase <robin@pmease.com> writes:
> 
> [jc: wrapped overly long lines]
> 
>> I am using command "git show --format=raw <commit hash>" to get
>> raw commit object in order to verify the GPG signature in my
>> program to customize public key loading. However in the raw commit
>> object, extra line breaks before and after the commit message is
>> removed, which cause the signature verification failure as git
>> generates the signature without removing those line breaks.
> 
> "git show --format=raw <commit object name>" will not give "raw
> commit object" to begin with.  It indents the message by four
> spaces.
> 
> "git cat-file commit <commit object name>" is what you want, I
> think.