Re: [PATCH, v2] tag: implement --[no-]strip option

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

Am 11/14/2011 22:43, schrieb Kirill A. Shutemov:

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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <redacted>

--strip::
	Remove from tag message lines staring with '#', trailing spaces

s/staring/starting/

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	from every line and empty lines from the beginning and end.
	Enabled by default. Use --no-strip to overwrite the behaviour.

--no-strip is useful if you want to take a tag message as-is, without
any stripping.

I would like to know why this is useful. Tag messages are for human
consumption. What benefit is it that whitespace is not stripped? Why are
lines starting with '#' so important that they need to stay in the tag
message?

A conversion from foreign SCM comes to mind, but that is somewhat an
unfair comment, given that I know by heart how stripspace works and the
above documentation patch incorrectly describes what it does.

Besides stripping "# comment", stripspace collapses consecutive blank
lines, removes trailing blank lines and trailing whitespaces at the end of
lines.