trailer: ignore first line of message

diff --git a/trailer.c b/trailer.c
index a905f5c50cef099c23d8a05acefc279168de69ec..f7d271397fea3bf02d795fddcf4472ef2bd9f395 100644 (file)
--- a/trailer.c
+++ b/trailer.c
@@ -748,8 +748,9 @@ static int find_trailer_start(struct strbuf **lines, int count)
        /*
         * Get the start of the trailers by looking starting from the end
         * for a line with only spaces before lines with one separator.
+        * The start cannot be the first line.
         */
-       for (start = count - 1; start >= 0; start--) {
+       for (start = count - 1; start >= 1; start--) {
                if (lines[start]->buf[0] == comment_line_char)
                        continue;
                if (contains_only_spaces(lines[start]->buf)) {