git diff shows diffs for identical lines

Question

I cloned a new repository and changed one line. The problem is that when I went to git diff, the diff also shows lines like the example below, where I haven't touched the line at all, and the diff shows... the same thing before and after the change? What's going on? How can I stop this?

@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ class EventSpider(scrapy.Spider):

         next_page_links = response.xpath('//b[contains(text(), "Page")]/following-sibling::a/@href').getall()
         yield from response.follow_all(next_page_links, self.parse)
-
-    def parse_event(self, response):
+
+    def parse_event(self, response):
         def extract_from_xpath(query):
             return response.xpath(query).get(default='').strip()

is there a way to make git diff show the whitespace characters? — wheeeee, Jun 22 '20 at 19:51
Does this answer your question? [Coloring white space in git-diff's output](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5257553/coloring-white-space-in-git-diffs-output) — evolutionxbox, Jun 22 '20 at 19:57

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 22 '20 at 19:58

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Try setting the color for whitespace... something like this:

git config color.diff.whitespace "red reverse"

answered Jun 22 '20 at 19:58

Ryan

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