diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-bats-unix.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci-bats-unix.yaml
index cfd80ad146..56e9f8a26b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-bats-unix.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-bats-unix.yaml
@@ -88,6 +88,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install expect
         if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-22.04'
         run: sudo apt-get install -y expect
+      - name: Install pcre2grep
+        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-22.04'
+        run: sudo apt-get install -y pcre2-utils
       - name: Install Maven
         working-directory: ./.ci_bin
         run: |
diff --git a/go/cmd/dolt/commands/rebase.go b/go/cmd/dolt/commands/rebase.go
index 3519d98e13..536a751d0f 100644
--- a/go/cmd/dolt/commands/rebase.go
+++ b/go/cmd/dolt/commands/rebase.go
@@ -266,6 +266,10 @@ func buildInitialRebaseMsg(sqlCtx *sql.Context, queryist cli.Queryist, rebaseBra
 		if !ok {
 			return "", fmt.Errorf("unexpected type for commit_message; expected string, found %T", commitMessage)
 		}
+
+		// Match Git's behavior and filter out newlines
+		commitMessage = strings.Replace(commitMessage, "\n", " ", -1)
+
 		buffer.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("%s %s %s\n", action, commitHash, commitMessage))
 	}
 	buffer.WriteString("\n")
diff --git a/go/libraries/doltcore/sqle/enginetest/dolt_queries_rebase.go b/go/libraries/doltcore/sqle/enginetest/dolt_queries_rebase.go
index bc5b7f0a6e..dc74569560 100644
--- a/go/libraries/doltcore/sqle/enginetest/dolt_queries_rebase.go
+++ b/go/libraries/doltcore/sqle/enginetest/dolt_queries_rebase.go
@@ -1611,6 +1611,47 @@ var DoltRebaseScriptTests = []queries.ScriptTest{
 			},
 		},
 	},
+	{
+		Name: "dolt_rebase: handles multi-line commit messages",
+		SetUpScript: []string{
+			`CALL dolt_commit('--allow-empty', '-m', 'empty commit 1');`,
+			`CALL dolt_commit('--allow-empty', '-m', 'empty 
+commit 
+2');`,
+		},
+		Assertions: []queries.ScriptTestAssertion{
+			{
+				Query: "SELECT message FROM dolt_log LIMIT 1;",
+				Expected: []sql.Row{
+					{"empty \ncommit \n2"},
+				},
+			},
+			{
+				Query: "CALL dolt_rebase('-i', '--empty=keep', 'HEAD~1');",
+				Expected: []sql.Row{
+					{0, "interactive rebase started on branch dolt_rebase_main; adjust the rebase plan in the dolt_rebase table, then continue rebasing by calling dolt_rebase('--continue')"},
+				},
+			},
+			{
+				Query: "SELECT * from dolt_rebase;",
+				Expected: []sql.Row{
+					{"1", "pick", doltCommit, "empty \ncommit \n2"},
+				},
+			},
+			{
+				Query: "CALL dolt_rebase('--continue');",
+				Expected: []sql.Row{
+					{0, "Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/main"},
+				},
+			},
+			{
+				Query: "SELECT message FROM dolt_log LIMIT 1;",
+				Expected: []sql.Row{
+					{"empty \ncommit \n2"},
+				},
+			},
+		},
+	},
 }
 
 var DoltRebaseMultiSessionScriptTests = []queries.ScriptTest{
diff --git a/integration-tests/bats/rebase.bats b/integration-tests/bats/rebase.bats
index e43cf5d616..b3f9ecc34f 100755
--- a/integration-tests/bats/rebase.bats
+++ b/integration-tests/bats/rebase.bats
@@ -21,9 +21,15 @@ teardown() {
     teardown_common
 }
 
+# sets up the EDITOR env var with a script that takes the input file from
+# the process invoking the editor and copies it to the editor-input.txt
+# file for tests to check, and then copies the file specifeid as an argument
+# to this function, as the output for the editor, sent back to the process
+# that invoked the editor.
 setupCustomEditorScript() {
     touch rebaseScript.sh
     echo "#!/bin/bash" >> rebaseScript.sh
+    echo "cp \$1 editor-input.txt" >> rebaseScript.sh
     if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
       echo "mv $1 \$1" >> rebaseScript.sh
     fi
@@ -131,6 +137,33 @@ setupCustomEditorScript() {
     [[ "$output" =~ "main commit 2" ]] || false
 }
 
+# bats test_tags=no_lambda
+# skip bats on lambda, since we don't have the pcre2grep utility there
+@test "rebase: multi-line commit messages" {
+    setupCustomEditorScript
+
+    # Create a multi-line commit message
+    dolt checkout b1
+    dolt commit --allow-empty -m "multi
+line
+commit
+message"
+
+    # Run rebase (with the default plan, custom editor makes no changes)
+    run dolt rebase --empty=keep -i main
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" =~ "Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/b1" ]] || false
+
+    # Assert that the newlines were removed in the rebase plan editor
+    grep "multi line commit message" editor-input.txt
+
+    # Assert that the commit log still shows the multi-line message
+    run dolt log -n1
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    echo "$output" > tmp.out
+    pcre2grep -nM "multi\s*\R+\s*line\s*\R+\s*commit\s*\R+\s*message" tmp.out
+}
+
 @test "rebase: failed rebase will abort and clean up" {
     setupCustomEditorScript "invalidRebasePlan.txt"
     dolt checkout b1