diff --git a/SourceGitweb/SourceGitweb.php b/SourceGitweb/SourceGitweb.php
index 0102797..bf4ec9f 100644
--- a/SourceGitweb/SourceGitweb.php
+++ b/SourceGitweb/SourceGitweb.php
@@ -288,6 +288,9 @@
 			preg_match( '#<div class="page_body">(.*)</div>#', $t_gitweb_data, $t_matches );
 			$t_commit['message'] = trim( str_replace( '<br/>', PHP_EOL, $t_matches[1] ) );
 
+			# Strip ref links and signoff spans from commit message
+			$t_commit['message'] = preg_replace( '/<a [^>]*>([^<]*)</a>/', '$1', $t_commit['message'] );
+			$t_commit['message'] = preg_replace( '/<span [^>]*>([^<]*)</span>/', '$1', $t_commit['message'] );
 
 			# Parse for changed file data
 			$t_commit['files'] = array();