|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
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:
Use git stripspace with no arguments to obtain:
Use git stripspace --strip-comments to obtain:
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https://git-scm.com/docs/git-stripspace