How to ignore whitespace in github when comparing?

Question

I have committed a file after prettifying it in sublime. Now when I am comparing the differences in github web ui it\'s showing a lot of changes, so it is very difficult to

Answer 1

Since May 2018, this option is now more visible:

A diff view with reduced white space has been available since 2011 by adding ?w=1 to the URL.
The new button builds on this view to better support your existing workflows.

Select the new option "Hide whitespace changes" in that "Diff settings" new button, and you will see only the relevant changes you want.

Note: since 2018, that setting has been relocated to the setting "gear" symbol:

Answer 2

git diff -w (alternately git diff --ignore-all-space) ignores whitespace. You can also add --ignore-blank-lines if there are a lot of those.

For more details and many more options, check out the docs.

Answer 3

On github, you simply append the w=1 parameter to the URL for it to ignore whitespace.

That would look something like:

https://github.com/account_name/repo/pull/14/files?w=1