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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, v2] tag: implement --[no-]strip option
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Am 11/14/2011 22:43, schrieb Kirill A. Shutemov:
> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
> 
> --strip::
> 	Remove from tag message lines staring with '#', trailing spaces

s/staring/starting/

> 	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?

-- Hannes