From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 16:13:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [SCRIPT] chomp: trim trailing whitespace
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605270905190.5623@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90605270828u7842ea48hda07331388694db2@mail.gmail.com>



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