Language aware diffs remove noise from diffs by hiding irrelevant changes, but where do you draw the line between relevant and irrelevant changes?
  • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    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.