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
    2·
    10 months ago

    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.

      • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
        2·
        10 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.