Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964827AbWE0QNX (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 May 2006 12:13:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964856AbWE0QNX (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 May 2006 12:13:23 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:451 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964827AbWE0QNV (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 May 2006 12:13:21 -0400 Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 09:13:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Martin Langhoff cc: Jeff Garzik , Git Mailing List , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [SCRIPT] chomp: trim trailing whitespace In-Reply-To: <46a038f90605270828u7842ea48hda07331388694db2@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <4477B905.9090806@garzik.org> <46a038f90605270828u7842ea48hda07331388694db2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 886 Lines: 23 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/