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NAME

git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespace

SYNOPSIS

git stripspace [-s | --strip-comments] < input
 

DESCRIPTION

Clean the input in the manner used by git for text such as commit messages, notes, tags and branch descriptions.
 
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.

OPTIONS

-s, --strip-comments
Skip and remove all lines starting with #.

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.$
 

GIT

Part of the git(1) suite
03/19/2016 Git 1.7.10.4