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 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 git(1) suite