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Re: [SCRIPT] chomp: trim trailing whitespace

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 27, 2006, 16:13 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0605270905190.5623@g5.osdl.org>
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On Sun, 28 May 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>
> I love perl golf for this kind of stuff... but git-stripspace is part
> of git already. Even then, I tend to do it with perl -pi -e ''
> constructs ;-)

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).

		Linus
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  2. Jan EngelhardtMay 27, 2006
  3. Thomas GlanzmannMay 27, 2006
  4. Neil BrownMay 27, 2006
  5. Jeff GarzikMay 27, 2006
  6. Dmitry FedorovMay 27, 2006
  7. Jan EngelhardtMay 27, 2006
  8. Keith OwensMay 28, 2006
  9. Martin LanghoffMay 27, 2006
  10. Linus TorvaldsMay 27, 2006
  11. Johannes SchindelinMay 28, 2006

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