Git merge improvement - "remove spaces/tabs from beginning of line and end of line"

Greetings,

i was interested if you already considered this as feature, or if you may consider this as good feature. I know that during merge every character need be considered. And at the end it will be. I described my problem to another developer and he named this feature as good noise merge reduction.

Issue: Several times it happened that i added or removed condition in code but a lot of code stayed. Only indention was changed. If there was also other change on some line i had a conflict. And several times it happened that a lot of code was appended instead of replaced (if some line was similar with same indention). This made merging messed and confusing. If we would remove this spaces noise from beginning and end, we could get more acquired merge. What do you think? Of course this is only for looking for most matching lines. At the end the code should keep all necessary spaces.

Thank you very much for your opinion.