Hi,

I really like your patch, except for this:

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:

> diff --git a/builtin.h b/builtin.h
> index 03ee7bf..d6f2c76 100644
> --- a/builtin.h
> +++ b/builtin.h
> @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ extern const char git_version_string[];
>  extern const char git_usage_string[];
>  
>  extern void help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd);
> -extern size_t stripspace(char *buffer, size_t length, int skip_comments);
>  extern int write_tree(unsigned char *sha1, int missing_ok, const char *prefix);
>  extern void prune_packed_objects(int);
>  
> diff --git a/strbuf.h b/strbuf.h
> index 21fc111..5960637 100644
> --- a/strbuf.h
> +++ b/strbuf.h
> @@ -98,4 +98,6 @@ extern ssize_t strbuf_read(struct strbuf *, int fd, size_t hint);
>  
>  extern void read_line(struct strbuf *, FILE *, int);
>  
> +extern void stripspace(struct strbuf *buf, int skip_comments);
> +
>  #endif /* STRBUF_H */

If you do that, you have to move the function "stripspace" to strbuf.c, 
too...

Ciao,
Dscho