Some languages are unfortunately whitespace sensitive, so a generic VCS cannot discard whitespace at all. But maybe the diffing tools themselves could be made language aware and hide not meaningful changes.
Some languages are unfortunately whitespace sensitive, so a generic VCS cannot discard whitespace at all. But maybe the diffing tools themselves could be made language aware and hide not meaningful changes.
hiding not meaningful changes is not enough. when a block in python changes the indentation, i want to see that the block is otherwise unchanged. so indentation changes simply need to be marked differently. if a tool can to that then it will also work with code where indentation is optional, allowing me to cleanly indent code without messing up the diff.
i saw a diff tool that marked only the characters that changed. that would work here.