diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index b322347..4440fba 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -1769,7 +1769,7 @@ const char *find_commit_header(const char *msg, const char *key, size_t *out_len
  * Returns the number of bytes from the tail to ignore, to be fed as
  * the second parameter to append_signoff().
  */
-size_t ignore_non_trailer(const char *buf, size_t len)
+size_t ignored_log_message_bytes(const char *buf, size_t len)
 {
 	size_t boc = 0;
 	size_t bol = 0;