From 4910bfc584af807535436dd0d4c206312977412a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Garen Torikian <gjtorikian@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:30:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add support for multiline commits

---
 BLAH.txt                     | 3 ---
 server/cloud9/ext/git/git.js | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 BLAH.txt

diff --git a/BLAH.txt b/BLAH.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 3ab3b32a90d..00000000000
--- a/BLAH.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-saflsa;glsd;fglsdg
-dsdfsfsdfgsfgasdf
-sgfsdgsdgfsdgfkllkasdfasfc`sddfsfdsasd
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/server/cloud9/ext/git/git.js b/server/cloud9/ext/git/git.js
index a1aa944c4e5..55e5c0d2b2b 100644
--- a/server/cloud9/ext/git/git.js
+++ b/server/cloud9/ext/git/git.js
@@ -67,6 +67,14 @@ sys.inherits(ShellGitPlugin, Plugin);
         var _self = this;
         var argv = message.argv || [];
 
+        // git encourages newlines in commit messages; see also #678
+        // so if a \n is detected, treat the whole commit message as a newline
+        if (message.argv[1] == "commit" && message.argv[2] == "-m") {
+            if (message.argv[3].indexOf("\\n") > -1) {
+                message.argv[3] = message.argv[3].replace(/\\n/g,"\n");
+            }
+        }
+        
         this.spawnCommand(message.command, argv.slice(1), message.cwd,
             function(err) { // Error
                 _self.sendResult(0, message.command, {