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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) the libgit2 contributors. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This file is part of libgit2, distributed under the GNU GPL v2 with
+ * a Linking Exception. For full terms see the included COPYING file.
+ */
+#ifndef INCLUDE_git_message_h__
+#define INCLUDE_git_message_h__
+
+#include "common.h"
+
+/**
+ * @file git2/message.h
+ * @brief Git message management routines
+ * @ingroup Git
+ * @{
+ */
+GIT_BEGIN_DECL
+
+/**
+ * Clean up message from excess whitespace and make sure that the last line
+ * ends with a '\n'.
+ *
+ * Optionally, can remove lines starting with a "#".
+ *
+ * @param out The user-allocated buffer which will be filled with the
+ *     cleaned up message. Pass NULL if you just want to get the needed
+ *     size of the prettified message as the output value.
+ *
+ * @param out_size Size of the `out` buffer in bytes.
+ *
+ * @param message The message to be prettified.
+ *
+ * @param strip_comments Non-zero to remove lines starting with "#", 0 to
+ *     leave them in.
+ *
+ * @return -1 on error, else number of characters in prettified message
+ *     including the trailing NUL byte
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_message_prettify(
+	char *out,
+	size_t out_size,
+	const char *message,
+	int strip_comments);
+
+/** @} */
+GIT_END_DECL
+
+#endif /* INCLUDE_git_message_h__ */