git-stripspace

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Remove unnecessary whitespace

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git stripspace [-s | --strip-comments] git stripspace [-c | --comment-lines]

Options

-s--strip-comments

Skip and remove all lines starting with a comment character (default #).

-c--comment-lines

Prepend the comment character and a blank space to each line. Lines will automatically be terminated with a newline. On empty lines, only the comment character will be prepended.

DESCRIPTION

Read text, such as commit messages, notes, tags and branch descriptions, from the standard input and clean it in the manner used by Git.

With no arguments, this will:

•remove trailing whitespace from all lines

•collapse multiple consecutive empty lines into one empty line

•remove empty lines from the beginning and end of the input

•add a missing \n to the last line if necessary.

In the case where the input consists entirely of whitespace characters, no output will be produced.

NOTE: This is intended for cleaning metadata. Prefer the --whitespace=fix mode of git-apply(1) for correcting whitespace of patches or files in the repository.

EXAMPLES

Given the following noisy input with $ indicating the end of a line:

|A brief introduction   $
|   $
|$
|A new paragraph$
|# with a commented-out line    $
|explaining lots of stuff.$
|$
|# An old paragraph, also commented-out. $
|      $
|The end.$
|  $

Use git stripspace with no arguments to obtain:

|A brief introduction$
|$
|A new paragraph$
|# with a commented-out line$
|explaining lots of stuff.$
|$
|# An old paragraph, also commented-out.$
|$
|The end.$

Use git stripspace --strip-comments to obtain:

|A brief introduction$
|$
|A new paragraph$
|explaining lots of stuff.$
|$
|The end.$

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