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mapleoin on Nov 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Art and Science of Great Code

It's not only about bandwidth concerns, it's more about making commit diffs readable. If you have ten lines of tabular assignments and you changed the sixth, but that made you realign everything, then you'll see 10 green lines + 10 pink lines in your commit diff, even though you should only see two lines in total.

kleiba on Nov 4, 2011 [–]

Unless you have the option to blend out whitespace-only changes, e.g. https://github.com/blog/967-github-secrets

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