How to Ignore Whitespace in a GitHub Pull Request
Published: September 05, 2022 • Updated: March 29, 2023 • 2 min read
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Reviewing a GitHub PR on that contains a lot of whitespace changes? Extra whitespace can make it challenging to evaluate the substance of a PR. It’s high on my list of things that should generally not be refactored.
Ignore whitespace by adding the query parameter ?w=1 to your diff URL.
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