NAME
git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespaceSYNOPSIS
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.•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.
OPTIONS
-s, --strip-commentsSkip 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.$ | $
|A brief introduction$ |$ |A new paragraph$ |# with a commented-out line$ |explaining lots of stuff.$ |$ |# An old paragraph, also commented-out.$ |$ |The end.$
|A brief introduction$ |$ |A new paragraph$ |explaining lots of stuff.$ |$ |The end.$
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite02/28/2023 | Git 2.39.2 |