thodg/libgit2

diff --git a/src/commit.c b/src/commit.c
index bda5a8b..a26368c 100644
--- a/src/commit.c
+++ b/src/commit.c
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ int git_commit__parse_raw(void *_commit, const char *data, size_t size)
 		return -1;
 
 	/* Some tools create multiple author fields, ignore the extra ones */
-	while ((size_t)(buffer_end - buffer) >= strlen("author ") && !git__prefixcmp(buffer, "author ")) {
+	while (!git__prefixncmp(buffer, buffer_end - buffer, "author ")) {
 		if (git_signature__parse(&dummy_sig, &buffer, buffer_end, "author ", '\n') < 0)
 			return -1;