Subject: Re: bug#33740: [PATCH] Customizable flymake mode-line indicator

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 10:02:53 -0400

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Yes, it's mostly whitespace due to rearranging the way the strings are
> computed.
>
>> Is there some diff format which elides those?
>
> I'm not sure?

You can pass --ignore-all-space (aka -w) to git diff (although the
result might not work for git apply).

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff#Documentation/git-diff.txt--w