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The "test-comment-format" command:

Usage: fossil test-comment-format [OPTIONS] TEXT [PREFIX] [ORIGTEXT]

Test comment formatting and printing. Use for testing only.

The default (canonical) formatting algorithm is:

Use --whitespace, --origbreak, --trimcrlf, --trimspace, and/or --wordbreak to disable the canonical processing and do the special processing specified by those other options.

Options:

--decode
Decode the text using the same method used when handling the value of a C-card from a manifest.
--file FILE
Omit the TEXT argument and read the comment text from FILE.
--indent
Number of spaces to indent (default (-1) is to auto-detect). Zero means no indent.
--orig FILE
Take the value for the ORIGTEXT argumetn from FILE.
--origbreak
Attempt to break when the original comment text is detected.
--trimcrlf
Enable trimming of leading/trailing CR/LF.
--trimspace
Enable trimming of leading/trailing spaces.
--whitespace
Keep all internal whitespace.
--wordbreak
Attempt to break lines on word boundaries.
-W|--width NUM
Width of lines (default (-1) is to auto-detect). Zero means no limit.