Oh, I see there is now 'Show whitespace characters' option. Didn't notice it earlier. Looks like it helps to see the tabs vs. spaces.

@Adam Pryce, could your developer share his style for Stylish to achieve this? I badly need to see tabs vs. spaces! Thanks!

We would also like something to differentiate tabs. One developer used the Stylish plugin, but a per-user or in diff setting would be great:

Hi, I'm looking for something similar. Instead of whitespaces, is there any way to enable/disable case-sensitivity of diffs?

Hi mtomov & festerwim,

As of Stash 2.8 there is a new "Ignore Whitespace" option available from a menu within diffs, as well as a keyboard shortcut while you are viewing a diff (Shift+W).

This option will persist when switching to different files, pull requests, etc.

1+ for making ?w=1 configurable or set by default. This is way too useful to be left out so well hidden.

Is there an issue to track the fact that this is not configurable from the UI currently? I would like to vote for that since this is such a useful feature.

I was struggeling to get it working with the URL append if there are multiple files in the change set. The trick is that you have to append when the URL still looks like this (This is the case just after switching to the 'diff' tab): http://stash.mycompany.com/projects/TST/repos/test-repo/pull-requests/33/diff

Append the thing so it becomes: http://stash.mycompany.com/projects/TST/repos/test-repo/pull-requests/33/diff?w=1

And now you can click on any file in the change set, it will keep this setting and ignore the whitespace.

Hi Patrick,

You're quite correct. This is an unfortunate side-effect that git diff-tree --ignore-all-space doesn't respect the whitespace argument, which is what we use to calculate the file listing. I'm not sure there is much we can do in the short term for this. We would actually have to run git diff, which is far more expensive and also doesn't provide the same file information that we require.

Cheers,
Charles

?w=1 does work on the content of files, but not on the file listing, it shows files that have no changes except for whitespace changes.

Hi kostmo1, I've re-opened STASH-3105 as we haven't addressed the issue of tab spacing by ignoring whitespace in the diff.