git-stripspace(1) ================= NAME ---- git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespace SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] '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: - 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 linkgit:git-apply[1] for correcting whitespace of patches or files in the repository. OPTIONS ------- -s:: --strip-comments:: Skip and remove all lines starting with a comment character (default '#'). -c:: --comment-lines:: Prepend the comment character and a blank space 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 linkgit:git[1] suite