make_squash_message () {
        if test -f "$SQUASH_MSG"; then
-               COUNT=$(($(sed -n "s/^# This is [^0-9]*\([0-9]\+\).*/\1/p" \
+               COUNT=$(($(sed -n "s/^# This is [^0-9]*\([1-9][0-9]*\).*/\1/p" \
                        < "$SQUASH_MSG" | tail -n 1)+1))
                echo "# This is a combination of $COUNT commits."
                sed -n "2,\$p" < "$SQUASH_MSG"
 
                        die "$RESOLVEMSG"
                fi
                printf "Committed: %0${prec}d " $msgnum
-               git rev-list --pretty=oneline -1 HEAD | \
-                       sed 's/^[a-f0-9]\+ //'
        else
                printf "Already applied: %0${prec}d " $msgnum
-               git rev-list --pretty=oneline -1 "$cmt" | \
-                       sed 's/^[a-f0-9]\+ //'
        fi
+       git rev-list --pretty=oneline -1 "$cmt" | sed -e 's/^[^ ]* //'
 
        prev_head=`git rev-parse HEAD^0`
        # save the resulting commit so we can read-tree on it later