Also, the white space diffs shouldn't be significant as long as all the files were already properly formatted before the change. If your diffs are including unr

Also, the white space diffs shouldn't be significant as long as all the files were already properly formatted before the change. If your diffs are including unrelated formatting changes, then you should do a single commit to format all your files. You can also use git-ignore-revs so that this formatting commit won't show up in git blame.