diff --git a/packages/babel-generator/src/printer.js b/packages/babel-generator/src/printer.js
index 83a0321a0a70..1653d070444d 100644
--- a/packages/babel-generator/src/printer.js
+++ b/packages/babel-generator/src/printer.js
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ export default class Printer {
 
       const indentSize = Math.max(
         this._getIndent().length,
-        this._buf.getCurrentColumn(),
+        this.format.retainLines ? 0 : this._buf.getCurrentColumn(),
       );
       val = val.replace(/\n(?!$)/g, `\n${" ".repeat(indentSize)}`);
     }
diff --git a/packages/babel-generator/test/fixtures/comments/multi-comment-with-retainlines-option/input.js b/packages/babel-generator/test/fixtures/comments/multi-comment-with-retainlines-option/input.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2aff8b2e73dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/babel-generator/test/fixtures/comments/multi-comment-with-retainlines-option/input.js
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+var foo = "this is a long string";
+
+/**
+ * this is comment
+ */
+class Bar {}
+
+{
+  const foo = "this is a really long line of text. this is a really long line of text.";
+
+  /**
+   * Example
+   */
+  class A {}
+}
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diff --git a/packages/babel-generator/test/fixtures/comments/multi-comment-with-retainlines-option/options.json b/packages/babel-generator/test/fixtures/comments/multi-comment-with-retainlines-option/options.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..97925bbcb61b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/babel-generator/test/fixtures/comments/multi-comment-with-retainlines-option/options.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  "retainLines": true
+}
diff --git a/packages/babel-generator/test/fixtures/comments/multi-comment-with-retainlines-option/output.js b/packages/babel-generator/test/fixtures/comments/multi-comment-with-retainlines-option/output.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2aff8b2e73dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/babel-generator/test/fixtures/comments/multi-comment-with-retainlines-option/output.js
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+var foo = "this is a long string";
+
+/**
+ * this is comment
+ */
+class Bar {}
+
+{
+  const foo = "this is a really long line of text. this is a really long line of text.";
+
+  /**
+   * Example
+   */
+  class A {}
+}
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