Getting Git GUI to Ignore Space Changes in its diff View

Question

Git comes with two default UI tools (on Windows at least): Git GUI and Gitk.

When browsing a commit, Gitk has a checkbox called "Ignore space changes" that makes the diff show only non-space related changes.

However, Git GUI always shows the full diff, and there is no equivalent checkbox.

Is there a way for getting Git GUI to ignore space changes too?

score 62 · Accepted Answer · edited May 10 '17 at 11:26

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Answering myself...

In the Git GUI main menu go to Edit -> Options. In Additional Diff Parameters put -w (or --ignore-all-space).

edited May 10 '17 at 11:26

Lii

answered Apr 06 '14 at 06:56

Adi Shavit

Anybody knows how to do this on the latest version of the gui on Mac, Edit->Options is not there any more. – klode Nov 23 '15 at 16:10
@klode: Try `GitGui->Preferences...`. – Adi Shavit Apr 18 '16 at 08:09
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exit and restart to see diff – eddyparkinson Feb 11 '17 at 06:24
this does not stage hunk? – Sergei Krivonos Jul 06 '18 at 11:33
@Sergei: if all hunk lines are ignored then I think not. – Adi Shavit Jul 09 '18 at 18:46
@AdiShavit, some bug happened, even if not all ignored it does not stage hunk sometimes. Maybe I should address it to developers of git Gui – Sergei Krivonos Jul 11 '18 at 08:58

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