git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespace

       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.

       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 gitstripspace 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 gitstripspace--strip-comments to obtain:

           |A brief introduction$
           |$
           |A new paragraph$
           |explaining lots of stuff.$
           |$
           |The end.$

       Part of the git(1) suite

Git 2.48.1                                         07/02/2025                                  GIT-STRIPSPACE(1)

       git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespace

       -s, --strip-comments
           Skip and remove all lines starting with a comment character (default #).

       -c, --comment-lines
           Prepend the comment character and a blank space to each line. Lines will automatically be terminated
           with a newline. On empty lines, only the comment character will be prepended.

gitstripspace [-s | --strip-comments]
       gitstripspace [-c | --comment-lines]