diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index 4620437..d2f30d9 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@
 	if (!commit)
 		die(_("could not lookup commit %s"), name);
 	out_enc = get_commit_output_encoding();
-	return logmsg_reencode(commit, out_enc);
+	return logmsg_reencode(commit, NULL, out_enc);
 }
 
 static int parse_and_validate_options(int argc, const char *argv[],