Git does not find commit to !fixup

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:10:34 +0200

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I started to use --fixup instead of doing “fixing typo” commits in my branches and with git rebase upstream/main --autosquash I prepared branch for a new MR. Receantly I discovered that in one case this worflow is breaking.

Problem is having whitespace at the start of targeted commit message (see reproduction steps).

After investigating git source code, there is “lstrip” right after skipping the “!fixup: " message so when using hashmap_get_from_hash it uses striped message, hence can not find the commit.

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Git does not find commit to !fixup

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