this was supposed to only be debug code

example/fruit.proto

@@ -75,4 +75,3 @@ message Fruits {                                        // `autogenpb:marshal` `
         int64                       cost          = 4;  // you can add additional things here but the three lines above must conform to the standard above
         map<string, string>         junk          = 5;
 }
-// footer was empty

protoReformat.go

@@ -423,7 +423,10 @@ func (parent *FormatMsg) format() []string {
 
 func (msg *FormatMsg) formatFooter(line string, dbg string) string {
 	if line == "" {
-		return "// footer was empty"
+		if argv.Debug {
+			return "// footer was empty"
+		}
+		return ""
 	}
 	return msg.formatLineBase(line, "footer")
 }