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    <title>git-stripspace(1)</title>
        <indexterm>
                <primary>git-stripspace(1)</primary>
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<simplesect id="_name">
<title>NAME</title>
<simpara>git-stripspace - Filter out empty lines</simpara>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_synopsis">
<title>SYNOPSIS</title>
<simpara><emphasis>git stripspace</emphasis> [-s | --strip-comments] &lt; &lt;stream&gt;</simpara>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_description">
<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<simpara>Remove multiple empty lines, and empty lines at beginning and end.</simpara>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_options">
<title>OPTIONS</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>
-s
</term>
<term>
--strip-comments
</term>
<listitem>
<simpara>
        In addition to empty lines, also strip lines starting with <emphasis>#</emphasis>.
</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
&lt;stream&gt;
</term>
<listitem>
<simpara>
        Byte stream to act on.
</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_author">
<title>Author</title>
<simpara>Written by Linus Torvalds &lt;<ulink url="mailto:torvalds@osdl.org">torvalds@osdl.org</ulink>&gt;</simpara>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_documentation">
<title>Documentation</title>
<simpara>Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list &lt;<ulink url="mailto:git@vger.kernel.org">git@vger.kernel.org</ulink>&gt;.</simpara>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_git">
<title>GIT</title>
<simpara>Part of the <xref linkend="git(1)"/> suite</simpara>
</simplesect>
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