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diff --git a/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt b/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c87bfcb674 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +git-stripspace(1) +================= + +NAME +---- +git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespace + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'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 linkgit: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 linkgit:git[1] suite |