| GIT-STRIPSPACE(1) | Git Manual | GIT-STRIPSPACE(1) |
NAME¶
git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespace
SYNOPSIS¶
git stripspace [-s | --strip-comments] < input
DESCRIPTION¶
Clean the input in the manner used by Git for text such as commit messages, notes, tags and branch descriptions.
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.
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.$
GIT¶
Part of the git(1) suite
| 05/23/2023 | Git 1.8.3.1 |