| GIT-STRIPSPACE(1) | Git Manual | GIT-STRIPSPACE(1) |
NAME¶
git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespace
SYNOPSIS¶
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 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 git(1) suite
| 11/20/2023 | Git 2.43.0 |