diff --git a/pkg/commands/git_commands/commit_loader.go b/pkg/commands/git_commands/commit_loader.go
index 7cdac4c33..9fff74cdc 100644
--- a/pkg/commands/git_commands/commit_loader.go
+++ b/pkg/commands/git_commands/commit_loader.go
@@ -89,11 +89,13 @@ func (self *CommitLoader) GetCommits(opts GetCommitsOptions) ([]*models.Commit,
 	go utils.Safe(func() {
 		defer wg.Done()
 
-		logErr = self.getLogCmd(opts).RunAndProcessLines(func(line string) (bool, error) {
-			commit := self.extractCommitFromLine(opts.HashPool, line, opts.RefToShowDivergenceFrom != "")
-			commits = append(commits, commit)
-			return false, nil
+		var realCommits []*models.Commit
+		realCommits, logErr = loadCommits(self.getLogCmd(opts), func(line string) (*models.Commit, bool) {
+			return self.extractCommitFromLine(opts.HashPool, line, opts.RefToShowDivergenceFrom != ""), false
 		})
+		if logErr == nil {
+			commits = append(commits, realCommits...)
+		}
 	})
 
 	var ancestor string
diff --git a/pkg/commands/git_commands/commit_loading_shared.go b/pkg/commands/git_commands/commit_loading_shared.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9bf774186
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/commands/git_commands/commit_loading_shared.go
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+package git_commands
+
+import (
+	"github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pkg/commands/models"
+	"github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pkg/commands/oscommands"
+)
+
+func loadCommits(
+	cmd *oscommands.CmdObj,
+	parseLogLine func(string) (*models.Commit, bool),
+) ([]*models.Commit, error) {
+	commits := []*models.Commit{}
+
+	err := cmd.RunAndProcessLines(func(line string) (bool, error) {
+		commit, stop := parseLogLine(line)
+		if stop {
+			return true, nil
+		}
+		commits = append(commits, commit)
+		return false, nil
+	})
+	return commits, err
+}
diff --git a/pkg/commands/git_commands/reflog_commit_loader.go b/pkg/commands/git_commands/reflog_commit_loader.go
index 036f74504..da0d1c3e0 100644
--- a/pkg/commands/git_commands/reflog_commit_loader.go
+++ b/pkg/commands/git_commands/reflog_commit_loader.go
@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@ func NewReflogCommitLoader(common *common.Common, cmd oscommands.ICmdObjBuilder)
 // GetReflogCommits only returns the new reflog commits since the given lastReflogCommit
 // if none is passed (i.e. it's value is nil) then we get all the reflog commits
 func (self *ReflogCommitLoader) GetReflogCommits(hashPool *utils.StringPool, lastReflogCommit *models.Commit, filterPath string, filterAuthor string) ([]*models.Commit, bool, error) {
-	commits := make([]*models.Commit, 0)
-
 	cmdArgs := NewGitCmd("log").
 		Config("log.showSignature=false").
 		Arg("-g").
@@ -38,10 +36,11 @@ func (self *ReflogCommitLoader) GetReflogCommits(hashPool *utils.StringPool, las
 	cmdObj := self.cmd.New(cmdArgs).DontLog()
 
 	onlyObtainedNewReflogCommits := false
-	err := cmdObj.RunAndProcessLines(func(line string) (bool, error) {
+
+	commits, err := loadCommits(cmdObj, func(line string) (*models.Commit, bool) {
 		commit, ok := self.parseLine(hashPool, line)
 		if !ok {
-			return false, nil
+			return nil, false
 		}
 
 		// note that the unix timestamp here is the timestamp of the COMMIT, not the reflog entry itself,
@@ -51,11 +50,10 @@ func (self *ReflogCommitLoader) GetReflogCommits(hashPool *utils.StringPool, las
 		if lastReflogCommit != nil && self.sameReflogCommit(commit, lastReflogCommit) {
 			onlyObtainedNewReflogCommits = true
 			// after this point we already have these reflogs loaded so we'll simply return the new ones
-			return true, nil
+			return nil, true
 		}
 
-		commits = append(commits, commit)
-		return false, nil
+		return commit, false
 	})
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, false, err