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Yeah but sometimes you do get meaningless changes that aren’t just whitespace even with auto formatters. For example if you change the indentation on some code and that causes it to wrap an expression.
Yeah but sometimes you do get meaningless changes that aren’t just whitespace even with auto formatters. For example if you change the indentation on some code and that causes it to wrap an expression.
How is that not whitespace?
git diff -w
only ignores whitespace within a line (e.g. changing indentation). It doesn’t ignore adding or removing new lines.But even if it did, wrapping a function call or a long string can introduce extra commas or quotes.