|A brief introduction $ | $ |$ |A new paragraph$ |# with a commented-out line $ |explaining lots of stuff.$ |$ |# An old paragraph, also commented-out. $ | $ |The end.$ | $
git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespace
git stripspace [-s | --strip-comments] git stripspace [-c | --comment-lines]
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:
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.
Skip and remove all lines starting with comment character (default #
).
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.
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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Licensed under the MIT License.
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-stripspace