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NAME

git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespace

SYNOPSIS

git stripspace [-s | --strip-comments]
git stripspace [-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:

+o remove trailing whitespace from all lines

+o collapse multiple consecutive empty lines into one empty line

+o remove empty lines from the beginning and end of the input

+o 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 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.

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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