diff --git a/ref-filter.c b/ref-filter.c
index c62f6b482271e1..6476686fea1d03 100644
--- a/ref-filter.c
+++ b/ref-filter.c
@@ -1097,14 +1097,19 @@ static const char *copy_email(const char *buf, struct used_atom *atom)
 
 static char *copy_subject(const char *buf, unsigned long len)
 {
-	char *r = xmemdupz(buf, len);
+	struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
 	int i;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
-		if (r[i] == '\n')
-			r[i] = ' ';
+	for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+		if (buf[i] == '\r' && i + 1 < len && buf[i + 1] == '\n')
+			continue; /* ignore CR in CRLF */
 
-	return r;
+		if (buf[i] == '\n')
+			strbuf_addch(&sb, ' ');
+		else
+			strbuf_addch(&sb, buf[i]);
+	}
+	return strbuf_detach(&sb, NULL);
 }
 
 static void grab_date(const char *buf, struct atom_value *v, const char *atomname)
@@ -1228,20 +1233,23 @@ static void find_subpos(const char *buf,
 
 	/* subject is first non-empty line */
 	*sub = buf;
-	/* subject goes to first empty line */
-	while (buf < *sig && *buf && *buf != '\n') {
-		eol = strchrnul(buf, '\n');
-		if (*eol)
-			eol++;
-		buf = eol;
-	}
+	/* subject goes to first empty line before signature begins */
+	if ((eol = strstr(*sub, "\n\n"))) {
+		eol = eol < *sig ? eol : *sig;
+	/* check if message uses CRLF */
+	} else if (! (eol = strstr(*sub, "\r\n\r\n"))) {
+		/* treat whole message as subject */
+		eol = strrchr(*sub, '\0');
+	}
+	buf = eol;
 	*sublen = buf - *sub;
 	/* drop trailing newline, if present */
-	if (*sublen && (*sub)[*sublen - 1] == '\n')
+	while (*sublen && ((*sub)[*sublen - 1] == '\n' ||
+			   (*sub)[*sublen - 1] == '\r'))
 		*sublen -= 1;
 
 	/* skip any empty lines */
-	while (*buf == '\n')
+	while (*buf == '\n' || *buf == '\r')
 		buf++;
 	*body = buf;
 	*bodylen = strlen(buf);
diff --git a/t/t3920-crlf-messages.sh b/t/t3920-crlf-messages.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000000..3f0ce02c3f0725
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t3920-crlf-messages.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='Test ref-filter and pretty APIs for commit and tag messages using CRLF'
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+LIB_CRLF_BRANCHES=""
+
+create_crlf_ref () {
+	branch="$1" &&
+	cat >.crlf-orig-$branch.txt &&
+	cat .crlf-orig-$branch.txt | append_cr >.crlf-message-$branch.txt &&
+	grep 'Subject' .crlf-orig-$branch.txt | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/[ ]*$//' | tr -d '\n' >.crlf-subject-$branch.txt &&
+	grep 'Body' .crlf-message-$branch.txt >.crlf-body-$branch.txt || true &&
+	LIB_CRLF_BRANCHES="${LIB_CRLF_BRANCHES} ${branch}" &&
+	test_tick &&
+	hash=$(git commit-tree HEAD^{tree} -p HEAD -F .crlf-message-${branch}.txt) &&
+	git branch ${branch} ${hash} &&
+	git tag tag-${branch} ${branch} -F .crlf-message-${branch}.txt --cleanup=verbatim
+}
+
+create_crlf_refs () {
+	create_crlf_ref crlf <<-\EOF &&
+	Subject first line
+
+	Body first line
+	Body second line
+	EOF
+	create_crlf_ref crlf-empty-lines-after-subject <<-\EOF &&
+	Subject first line
+
+
+	Body first line
+	Body second line
+	EOF
+	create_crlf_ref crlf-two-line-subject <<-\EOF &&
+	Subject first line
+	Subject second line
+
+	Body first line
+	Body second line
+	EOF
+	create_crlf_ref crlf-two-line-subject-no-body <<-\EOF &&
+	Subject first line
+	Subject second line
+	EOF
+	create_crlf_ref crlf-two-line-subject-no-body-trailing-newline <<-\EOF
+	Subject first line
+	Subject second line
+
+	EOF
+}
+
+test_crlf_subject_body_and_contents() {
+	command_and_args="$@" &&
+	command=$1 &&
+	if test ${command} = "branch" || test ${command} = "for-each-ref" || test ${command} = "tag"
+	then
+		atoms="(contents:subject) (contents:body) (contents)"
+	elif test ${command} = "log" || test ${command} = "show"
+	then
+		atoms="s b B"
+	fi &&
+	files="subject body message" &&
+	while test -n "${atoms}"
+	do
+		set ${atoms} && atom=$1 && shift && atoms="$*" &&
+		set ${files} &&	file=$1 && shift && files="$*" &&
+		test_expect_success "${command}: --format='%${atom}' works with messages using CRLF" "
+			rm -f expect &&
+			for ref in ${LIB_CRLF_BRANCHES}
+			do
+				cat .crlf-${file}-\"\${ref}\".txt >>expect &&
+				printf \"\n\" >>expect
+			done &&
+			git $command_and_args --format=\"%${atom}\" >actual &&
+			test_cmp expect actual
+		"
+	done
+}
+
+
+test_expect_success 'Setup refs with commit and tag messages using CRLF' '
+	test_commit inital &&
+	create_crlf_refs
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'branch: --verbose works with messages using CRLF' '
+	rm -f expect &&
+	for branch in $LIB_CRLF_BRANCHES
+	do
+		printf "  " >>expect &&
+		cat .crlf-subject-${branch}.txt >>expect &&
+		printf "\n" >>expect
+	done &&
+	git branch -v >tmp &&
+	# Remove first two columns, and the line for the currently checked out branch
+	current=$(git branch --show-current) &&
+	grep -v $current <tmp | awk "{\$1=\$2=\"\"}1"  >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_crlf_subject_body_and_contents branch --list crlf*
+
+test_crlf_subject_body_and_contents tag --list tag-crlf*
+
+test_crlf_subject_body_and_contents for-each-ref refs/heads/crlf*
+
+test_done