ignore: skip UTF8 BOM in ignore fileethomson/ignore_skip_bom

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/attr_file.c b/src/attr_file.c
index 8619647a3..ddd44703a 100644
--- a/src/attr_file.c
+++ b/src/attr_file.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include "repository.h"
 #include "filebuf.h"
 #include "attrcache.h"
+#include "buf_text.h"
 #include "git2/blob.h"
 #include "git2/tree.h"
 #include "blob.h"
@@ -108,9 +109,12 @@ int git_attr_file__load(
 	int error = 0;
 	git_blob *blob = NULL;
 	git_buf content = GIT_BUF_INIT;
+	const char *content_str;
 	git_attr_file *file;
 	struct stat st;
 	bool nonexistent = false;
+	int bom_offset;
+	git_bom_t bom;
 
 	*out = NULL;
 
@@ -159,13 +163,20 @@ int git_attr_file__load(
 	if ((error = git_attr_file__new(&file, entry, source)) < 0)
 		goto cleanup;
 
+	/* advance over a UTF8 BOM */
+	content_str = git_buf_cstr(&content);
+	bom_offset = git_buf_text_detect_bom(&bom, &content);
+
+	if (bom == GIT_BOM_UTF8)
+		content_str += bom_offset;
+
 	/* store the key of the attr_reader; don't bother with cache
 	 * invalidation during the same attr reader session.
 	 */
 	if (attr_session)
 		file->session_key = attr_session->key;
 
-	if (parser && (error = parser(repo, file, git_buf_cstr(&content))) < 0) {
+	if (parser && (error = parser(repo, file, content_str)) < 0) {
 		git_attr_file__free(file);
 		goto cleanup;
 	}