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NAME

6       git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespace
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SYNOPSIS

9       git stripspace [-s | --strip-comments]
10       git stripspace [-c | --comment-lines]
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DESCRIPTION

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

36       -s, --strip-comments
37           Skip and remove all lines starting with comment character (default
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41           Prepend comment character and blank to each line. Lines will
42           automatically be terminated with a newline. On empty lines, only
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EXAMPLES

46       Given the following noisy input with $ indicating the end of a line:
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48           |A brief introduction   $
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51           |A new paragraph$
52           |# with a commented-out line    $
53           |explaining lots of stuff.$
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55           |# An old paragraph, also commented-out. $
56           |      $
57           |The end.$
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63           |A brief introduction$
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65           |A new paragraph$
66           |# with a commented-out line$
67           |explaining lots of stuff.$
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69           |# An old paragraph, also commented-out.$
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71           |The end.$
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78           |A new paragraph$
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81           |The end.$
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85       Part of the git(1) suite
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89Git 2.18.1                        05/14/2019                 GIT-STRIPSPACE(1)