diff --git a/api/krusty/longlinebreak_test.go b/api/krusty/longlinebreak_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..365687628
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/krusty/longlinebreak_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+package krusty_test
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	kusttest_test "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/testutils/kusttest"
+)
+
+func TestLongLineBreaks(t *testing.T) {
+	th := kusttest_test.MakeHarness(t)
+	th.WriteF("/app/deployment.yaml", `
+apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: test
+  labels:
+    app.version: "{{ .Values.services.mariadb.app.version }}"
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: mariadb
+        image: "thisIsAReallyLongRepositoryLinkThatResultsInALineBreakWhenBuildingWithKustomize/mariadb:{{ .Values.services.mariadb.image.version }}"
+`)
+	th.WriteK("/app", `
+resources:
+- deployment.yaml
+`)
+	m := th.Run("/app", th.MakeDefaultOptions())
+	th.AssertActualEqualsExpected(m, `
+apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  labels:
+    app.version: '{{ .Values.services.mariadb.app.version }}'
+  name: test
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - image: thisIsAReallyLongRepositoryLinkThatResultsInALineBreakWhenBuildingWithKustomize/mariadb:{{ .Values.services.mariadb.image.version }}
+        name: mariadb
+`)
+}