1GIT-STRIPSPACE(1)                 Git Manual                 GIT-STRIPSPACE(1)
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NAME

6       git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespace
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SYNOPSIS

9       git stripspace [-s | --strip-comments] < input
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DESCRIPTION

13       Clean the input in the manner used by Git for text such as commit
14       messages, notes, tags and branch descriptions.
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16       With no arguments, this will:
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20       ·   collapse multiple consecutive empty lines into one empty line
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22       ·   remove empty lines from the beginning and end of the input
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24       ·   add a missing \n to the last line if necessary.
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26       In the case where the input consists entirely of whitespace characters,
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29       NOTE: This is intended for cleaning metadata, prefer the
30       --whitespace=fix mode of git-apply(1) for correcting whitespace of
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OPTIONS

34       -s, --strip-comments
35           Skip and remove all lines starting with comment character (default
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38       -c, --comment-lines
39           Prepend comment character and blank to each line. Lines will
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EXAMPLES

44       Given the following noisy input with $ indicating the end of a line:
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46           |A brief introduction   $
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49           |A new paragraph$
50           |# with a commented-out line    $
51           |explaining lots of stuff.$
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53           |# An old paragraph, also commented-out. $
54           |      $
55           |The end.$
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59       Use git stripspace with no arguments to obtain:
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61           |A brief introduction$
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63           |A new paragraph$
64           |# with a commented-out line$
65           |explaining lots of stuff.$
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67           |# An old paragraph, also commented-out.$
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69           |The end.$
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74           |A brief introduction$
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77           |explaining lots of stuff.$
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83       Part of the git(1) suite
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87Git 1.8.3.1                       11/19/2018                 GIT-STRIPSPACE(1)