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. With no arguments, this will: \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\cremove trailing whitespace from all lines \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
collapse multiple consecutive empty lines into one empty line \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
remove empty lines from the beginning and end of the input \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
add a missing \en 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.$