git diff ignore whitespace-Git diff -w ignore whitespace only at start & end of lines

Question

I love to use git diff -w to ignore whitespace differences. But, I just noticed that it ignores even whitespace differences in the middle of lines. How could I only ignore whitespace differences that come at the start (^) or end ($) of lines?

Answer 1

You can use this for end of line:

$ git diff --ignore-space-at-eol

Instead of what are you using currently:

$ git diff -w (--ignore-all-space)

But if you want a built in solution for start of line then my friends you are out of luck.