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one-liner-cleanup-respecting-gitignore.sh
git ls-files -c "*.js" "*.jsx" "*.ts" "*.tsx" | xargs -I{} perl -i -0pe '
# First, handle specific JSX/TSX comment blocks with curly braces
s|\{\/\*.*?\*\/\}||gs;
# Then handle regular comments
s|(?<!\:)//[^\n]*| |g;
s|/\*.*?\*/| |gs;
# Clean up extra whitespace
s|[ \t]+\n|\n|g;
' {}
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vkuprin commented Sep 8, 2025 

# Preview which files will be processed
echo "Files that will have comments removed:"
git diff --name-only main...HEAD | grep -E '\.(js|jsx|ts|tsx)$'

# Then run the actual command
git diff --name-only main...HEAD | grep -E '\.(js|jsx|ts|tsx)$' | xargs -I{} perl -i -0pe '
# First, handle specific JSX/TSX comment blocks with curly braces
s|\{\/\*.*?\*\/\}||gs;
# Then handle regular comments
s|(?<!\:)//[^\n]*|  |g;
s|/\*.*?\*/|  |gs;
# Clean up extra whitespace
s|[ \t]+\n|\n|g;
' {}

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