From: Michael Montalbo <mmontalbo@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 15:52:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] "git diff --word-diff" gives a diff while they are only space changes
Message-ID: <CAC2QwmKxiUczUdsb6H7_fnxSwZJS6SAh_moL=4x-FGNNpvm6xQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20260512211707.GB1516810@qaa.vinc17.org>

On 2026-05-12 21:17 UTC, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Yes, this would be useful.

I've submitted a patch for this:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.2113.git.1778686956622.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/T/#u

On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 2:17 PM Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
>
> On 2026-05-12 13:56:19 -0700, Michael Montalbo wrote:
> > Maybe something like this would be worth adding to the docs:
> [...]
> > +Word diff works by finding word-level changes within each hunk of
> > +the line-level diff.  The line-level alignment determines which
> > +changed lines are compared to each other, which can affect the
> > +word-level output.
> [...]
>
> Yes, this would be useful.
>
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