git stripspace
Read text (e.g. commit messages, notes, tags, and branch descriptions) from
stdin
and clean it into the manner used by Git. More information: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-stripspace.
- Trim whitespace from a file:
cat {{path/to/file}} | git stripspace
- Trim whitespace and Git comments from a file:
cat {{path/to/file}} | git stripspace --strip-comments
- Convert all lines in a file into Git comments:
git stripspace --comment-lines < {{path/to/file}}