+/*
+ * copy the reflog message msg to buf, which has been allocated sufficiently
+ * large, while cleaning up the whitespaces. Especially, convert LF to space,
+ * because reflog file is one line per entry.
+ */
+static int copy_msg(char *buf, const char *msg)
+{
+ char *cp = buf;
+ char c;
+ int wasspace = 1;
+
+ *cp++ = '\t';
+ while ((c = *msg++)) {
+ if (wasspace && isspace(c))
+ continue;
+ wasspace = isspace(c);
+ if (wasspace)
+ c = ' ';
+ *cp++ = c;
+ }
+ while (buf < cp && isspace(cp[-1]))
+ cp--;
+ *cp++ = '\n';
+ return cp - buf;
+}
+