Re: Remove leading/trailing whitespace from commit messages when importing from Subversion?

From: Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 10, 2009, 06:15 UTC
Message-ID: <49B6057E.2020706@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49B5FCD3.8060707@oak.homeunix.org>

Marcel M. Cary wrote:

> Try "git filter-branch --msg-filter your-filter-command".
>
> Marcel
>

Thank you, after-the-fact works fine too.  :)

If anyone else searches the archives and wonders how I did it, this sed command is it: sed -e "s/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//;/^$/d"

Unix rules!

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