diff --git a/gerrit-acceptance-tests/src/test/java/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/git/BUCK b/gerrit-acceptance-tests/src/test/java/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/git/BUCK
index 1ad9c8c..446a183 100644
--- a/gerrit-acceptance-tests/src/test/java/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/git/BUCK
+++ b/gerrit-acceptance-tests/src/test/java/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/git/BUCK
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
     'DraftChangeBlockedIT.java',
     'ForcePushIT.java',
     'SubmitOnPushIT.java',
+    'SubmoduleSubscriptionsWholeTopicMergeIT.java',
     'SubmoduleSubscriptionsIT.java',
     'VisibleRefFilterIT.java',
   ],
diff --git a/gerrit-acceptance-tests/src/test/java/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/git/SubmoduleSubscriptionsWholeTopicMergeIT.java b/gerrit-acceptance-tests/src/test/java/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/git/SubmoduleSubscriptionsWholeTopicMergeIT.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..85037f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gerrit-acceptance-tests/src/test/java/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/git/SubmoduleSubscriptionsWholeTopicMergeIT.java
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+// Copyright (C) 2015 The Android Open Source Project
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package com.google.gerrit.acceptance.git;
+
+import static com.google.gerrit.acceptance.GitUtil.getChangeId;
+
+import com.google.gerrit.acceptance.git.AbstractSubmoduleSubscription;
+import com.google.gerrit.acceptance.NoHttpd;
+import com.google.gerrit.extensions.api.changes.ReviewInput;
+import com.google.gerrit.testutil.ConfigSuite;
+
+import org.eclipse.jgit.junit.TestRepository;
+import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Config;
+import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.ObjectId;
+import org.eclipse.jgit.revwalk.RevCommit;
+import org.eclipse.jgit.transport.RefSpec;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+@NoHttpd
+public class SubmoduleSubscriptionsWholeTopicMergeIT
+  extends AbstractSubmoduleSubscription {
+
+  @ConfigSuite.Default
+  public static Config submitWholeTopicEnabled() {
+    return submitWholeTopicEnabledConfig();
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testSubscriptionUpdateOfManyChanges() throws Exception {
+    TestRepository<?> superRepo = createProjectWithPush("super-project");
+    TestRepository<?> subRepo = createProjectWithPush("subscribed-to-project");
+    createSubscription(superRepo, "master", "subscribed-to-project", "master");
+
+    ObjectId subHEAD = subRepo.branch("HEAD").commit().insertChangeId()
+        .message("some change")
+        .add("a.txt", "a contents ")
+        .create();
+    subRepo.git().push().setRemote("origin").setRefSpecs(
+          new RefSpec("HEAD:refs/heads/master")).call();
+
+    RevCommit c = subRepo.getRevWalk().parseCommit(subHEAD);
+
+    RevCommit c1 = subRepo.branch("HEAD").commit().insertChangeId()
+      .message("first change")
+      .add("asdf", "asdf\n")
+      .parent(c)
+      .create();
+    subRepo.git().push().setRemote("origin")
+      .setRefSpecs(new RefSpec("HEAD:refs/for/master/" + name("topic-foo")))
+      .call();
+
+    subRepo.reset(c.getId());
+    RevCommit c2 = subRepo.branch("HEAD").commit().insertChangeId()
+      .message("qwerty")
+      .add("qwerty", "qwerty")
+      .parent(c)
+      .create();
+
+    RevCommit c3 = subRepo.branch("HEAD").commit().insertChangeId()
+      .message("qwerty followup")
+      .add("qwerty", "qwerty\nqwerty\n")
+      .parent(c2)
+      .create();
+    subRepo.git().push().setRemote("origin")
+      .setRefSpecs(new RefSpec("HEAD:refs/for/master/" + name("topic-foo")))
+      .call();
+
+    String id1 = getChangeId(subRepo, c1).get();
+    String id2 = getChangeId(subRepo, c2).get();
+    String id3 = getChangeId(subRepo, c3).get();
+    gApi.changes().id(id1).current().review(ReviewInput.approve());
+    gApi.changes().id(id2).current().review(ReviewInput.approve());
+    gApi.changes().id(id3).current().review(ReviewInput.approve());
+
+    gApi.changes().id(id1).current().submit();
+    ObjectId subRepoId = subRepo.git().fetch().setRemote("origin").call()
+        .getAdvertisedRef("refs/heads/master").getObjectId();
+
+    expectToHaveSubmoduleState(superRepo, "master",
+        "subscribed-to-project", subRepoId);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/gerrit-server/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/server/git/SubmoduleOp.java b/gerrit-server/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/server/git/SubmoduleOp.java
index f05a1d4..773d665 100644
--- a/gerrit-server/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/server/git/SubmoduleOp.java
+++ b/gerrit-server/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/server/git/SubmoduleOp.java
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
 
       updateSubmoduleSubscriptions();
       updateSuperProjects(destBranch, rw, mergeTip.getId().toObjectId(), null);
-    } catch (OrmException e) {
+    } catch (OrmException | IOException e) {
       throw new SubmoduleException("Cannot open database", e);
     } finally {
       if (schema != null) {
@@ -210,7 +210,8 @@
   }
 
   private void updateSuperProjects(final Branch.NameKey updatedBranch, RevWalk myRw,
-      final ObjectId mergedCommit, final String msg) throws SubmoduleException {
+      final ObjectId mergedCommit, final String msg) throws SubmoduleException,
+      IOException {
     try {
       final List<SubmoduleSubscription> subscribers =
           schema.submoduleSubscriptions().bySubmodule(updatedBranch).toList();
@@ -236,6 +237,7 @@
                 && (c.getStatusCode() == CommitMergeStatus.CLEAN_MERGE
                     || c.getStatusCode() == CommitMergeStatus.CLEAN_PICK
                     || c.getStatusCode() == CommitMergeStatus.CLEAN_REBASE)) {
+              myRw.parseBody(c);
               sb.append("\n")
                 .append(c.getFullMessage());
             }