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NAME
git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespace
SYNOPSIS
bash
git stripspace\n [-s | --strip-comments]
\ngit stripspace\n [-c | --comment-lines]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:
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.
OPTIONS
-s, --strip-comments
-c, --comment-lines
EXAMPLES
Given the following noisy input with $ indicating the end of a line:
bash
|A brief introduction $
| $
|$
|A new paragraph$
|# with a commented-out line $
|explaining lots of stuff.$
|$
|# An old paragraph, also commented-out. $
| $
|The end.$
| $Use git stripspace with no arguments to obtain:
bash
|A brief introduction$
|$
|A new paragraph$
|# with a commented-out line$
|explaining lots of stuff.$
|$
|# An old paragraph, also commented-out.$
|$
|The end.$Use git stripspace --strip-comments to obtain:
bash
|A brief introduction$
|$
|A new paragraph$
|explaining lots of stuff.$
|$
|The end.$GIT
Part of the git(1) suite