Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 May 2006 12:00:01 +0200 (CEST) | From | Johannes Schindelin <> | Subject | Re: [SCRIPT] chomp: trim trailing whitespace |
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Hi,
On Sat, 27 May 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Well, git-stripspace actually does something slightly differently, in that > it also removes extraneous all-whitespace lines from the beginning, the > end, and the middle (in the middle, the rule is: two or more empty lines > are collapsed into one). > > Ie it's a total hack for parsing just commit messages (and it is in C, > because I can personally write 25 lines of C in about a millionth of the > time I can write 3 lines of perl).
But there is no good reason not to add some code and a command line switch, so that this tool with a very generic name actually performs what a normal person would expect from that name.
Ciao, Dscho
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