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-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm
index 87c2c9fc..ada713c7 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ sub msg_by_path ($$;$) {
         my ($self, $path, $ref) = @_;
         # TODO: allow other refs:
         my $str = git($self)->cat_file('HEAD:'.$path, $ref);
-        $$str =~ s/\A[\r\n]*From [^\r\n]*\r?\n//s;
+        $$str =~ s/\A[\r\n]*From [^\r\n]*\r?\n//s if $str;
         $str;
 }