# Fix git-mailinfo to understand empty commit messages

1 messages from 2005-08-19 to 2005-08-19. Participants: Marco Costalba.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1591

## Marco Costalba, 2005-08-19 07:59

Subject: Fix git-mailinfo to understand empty commit messages
Message-ID: <20050819075941.89094.qmail@web26308.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20050819075941.89094.qmail%40web26308.mail.ukl.yahoo.com

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In case of empty messages git-mailinfo ignores the "---"
line adding dirty stuff in commit message otherwise empty

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@yahoo.it>

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 tools/mailinfo.c |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

1ebfddf05e4655811157028091d03dfce39cc4f0
diff --git a/tools/mailinfo.c b/tools/mailinfo.c
--- a/tools/mailinfo.c
+++ b/tools/mailinfo.c
@@ -273,6 +273,12 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv)
 	}
 	while (1) {
 		int len = read_one_header_line(line, sizeof(line), stdin);
+		/* Check for empty messages */
+		if (!memcmp("---", line, 3)) {
+			line[len] = '\n';
+			handle_rest();
+			break;
+		}
 		if (!len) {
 			handle_body();
 			break;




		
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