trailer: forbid leading whitespace in trailers

Currently, interpret-trailers allows leading whitespace in trailer
lines. This leads to false positives, especially for quoted lines or
bullet lists.

Forbid leading whitespace in trailers.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/trailer.c b/trailer.c
index 4c5b931bcc..84105ac181 100644
--- a/trailer.c
+++ b/trailer.c
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ static int find_trailer_start(struct strbuf **lines, int count)
 		}
 
 		separator_pos = find_separator(lines[start]->buf);
-		if (separator_pos >= 1) {
+		if (separator_pos >= 1 && !isspace(lines[start]->buf[0])) {
 			struct list_head *pos;
 
 			trailer_lines++;