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Re:Tabs or spaces – Parsing a 1B files among 14 programming ... by dkuntz2 on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @03:57PM (#12401021)
But if anyone looks at a diff, it looks like all the lines have changed, instead of just one, taking just a tiny bit more cognitive overhead.
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Re:Tabs or spaces – Parsing a 1B files among 14 programming ... by citrusx on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @11:48PM (#12402984)
`git diff -w`
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Re:Tabs or spaces – Parsing a 1B files among 14 programming ... by tnorthcutt on Friday September 09, 2016 @11:02AM (#12462839)
But `git blame` still sees the whitespace change, right?

Edit: turns out `git blame -w` works as expected, ignoring whitespace. The More You Know™

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