You can use git log -S and the regex of the line to see how that line changed over time. It is also called git pickaxe. Also git diff has an ignore white space

You can use git log -S and the regex of the line to see how that line changed over time. It is also called git pickaxe. Also git diff has an ignore white space which basically ignores formatting stuff if that is the case. I believe that git log has it also.