GitHub: Exclude Whitespace Changes From GitHub Diffs

If you run a tidy ship and use plugins like vim-spacejam, then whitespace changes cluttering up your git diffs probably isn’t much of an issue.

However, if you are working with other people or messier code bases, then you may not be so lucky. If there are a bunch of whitespace changes in a commit, then that is going to make the diff view of a commit on GitHub annoying, and perhaps hard, to read.

You can cut to the chase by excluding whitespace changes from GitHub’s diff view by adding w=1 to the diff URL.

The example commit originally linked here has since been removed from its repository’s history, and archive.org has no snapshot of it either.

Via jbranchaud/til.