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6 git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespace
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9 git stripspace [-s | --strip-comments]
10 git stripspace [-c | --comment-lines]
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14 Read text, such as commit messages, notes, tags and branch
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18 With no arguments, this will:
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