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diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index a1bc4bd8b9..a54b0a0df0 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -116,10 +116,34 @@ static timestamp_t parse_commit_date(const char *buf, const char *tail)
dateptr = eol;
while (dateptr > buf && dateptr[-1] != '>')
dateptr--;
- if (dateptr == buf || dateptr == eol)
+ if (dateptr == buf)
return 0;
- /* dateptr < eol && *eol == '\n', so parsing will stop at eol */
+ /*
+ * Trim leading whitespace, but make sure we have at least one
+ * non-whitespace character, as parse_timestamp() will otherwise walk
+ * right past the newline we found in "eol" when skipping whitespace
+ * itself.
+ *
+ * In theory it would be sufficient to allow any character not matched
+ * by isspace(), but there's a catch: our isspace() does not
+ * necessarily match the behavior of parse_timestamp(), as the latter
+ * is implemented by system routines which match more exotic control
+ * codes, or even locale-dependent sequences.
+ *
+ * Since we expect the timestamp to be a number, we can check for that.
+ * Anything else (e.g., a non-numeric token like "foo") would just
+ * cause parse_timestamp() to return 0 anyway.
+ */
+ while (dateptr < eol && isspace(*dateptr))
+ dateptr++;
+ if (!isdigit(*dateptr) && *dateptr != '-')
+ return 0;
+
+ /*
+ * We know there is at least one digit (or dash), so we'll begin
+ * parsing there and stop at worst case at eol.
+ */
return parse_timestamp(dateptr, NULL, 10);
}