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 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 Part of the git(1) suite
Git 1.8.3.1 11/02/2018 GIT-STRIPSPACE(1)