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That's also hazardous when you later add an_even_longer_variable and then have to modify three extra lines to make them align.

• spinningarrow 10y ago
  Exactly. To be fair, I believe most popular editors have plugins/shortcuts to do this. Or at least I hope people aren't doing this manually.
  • dkuntz2 10y ago
    But if anyone looks at a diff, it looks like all the lines have changed, instead of just one, taking just a tiny bit more cognitive overhead.
    • citrusx 10y ago
      `git diff -w`
      • tnorthcutt 10y ago
        But `git blame` still sees the whitespace change, right? Edit: turns out `git blame -w` works as expected, ignoring whitespace. The More You Know™