only if the message is to be edited. Otherwise only whitespace
removed. The 'verbatim' mode does not change message at all,
'whitespace' removes just leading/trailing whitespace lines
- and 'strip' removes both whitespace and commentary.
+ and 'strip' removes both whitespace and commentary. The default
+ can be changed by the 'commit.cleanup' configuration variable
+ (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
-e::
--edit::