GIT-STRIPSPACE(1)

NAME
git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespace

SYNOPSIS

git stripspace [-s | --strip-comments] < input
git stripspace [-c | --comment-lines] < 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 comment character (default #).

-c, --comment-lines
    Prepend comment character and blank 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.$

GIT

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