Vscode: SCM: Option for gutter decoration ignore whitespace

Created on 11 Oct 2018 · 4Comments · Source: microsoft/vscode

The whitespaces are shown as changes in gutter decoration in editors:

I usually use git diff -w in the daily work and think it'll be great if there's an option for ignoring whitespace changes.

I've only found the setting diffEditor.ignoreTrimWhitespace which seems like it is only worked for Diff Editor not for Editors.

feature-request help wanted scm

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howar31

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@joaomoreno Any idea about the timeline for this issue? It's not a crucial feature, sure, but it'll be nice to have it.

sam97 on 2 Jan 2019

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Git side-by-side diff functionality does not show the whitespace (#18819)

vscodebot[bot] on 11 Oct 2018

Unfortunately this is a technical limitation. These whitespace changes are used for computations in range staging commands. There's no easy way to remove them now.

joaomoreno on 11 Oct 2018

Did this change recently? The gutter decoration used to follow the diff editor's setting for ignoring whitepace and worked great.
The gutter decorations are pretty useless to me now that they always show whitespace changes. I almost always just see one big vertical line since I often make indentation changes.