Subject: Ignoring boring lines(that do not contain information) in git diff

From: Peter Oberndorfer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:44:12 +0200

Hi,

is there a way to tell git diff about lines that are uninteresting?
I mean lines which do not contain a lot of information and
appear several times in pre and post image.

For example whitespace or language dependent stuff like.
{
}
END_IF;
END_FOR;
end sub

I have seen diffs that containing 2 interesting hunks splitted by such 
boring lines.
(I have attached a anonymized version of a real world example where this 
happens)

I think the diff would be clearer when this boring line was added to the 
surrounding hunks.
I already tried patience diff but in my test case it changed nothing.
I am using git 1.7.10.

Thanks,
Greetings Peter

diff --git a/Source/Frobble/Blabber.txt b/Source/Frobble/Blabber.txt
index 87ccddb..627bc3e 100644
--- a/Source/Frobble/Blabber.txt
+++ b/Source/Frobble/Blabber.txt
@@ -138,73 +138,74 @@ END_VAR
-         //frobble immediately if immediately flag is set
-         IF bImmediately AND NOT Array[i].bDisabled THEN
-            aFrobble(i, Entry);
+         IF Entry.bBlah THEN
+               Alarm.Alarm  := SomeAlarm;
+         ELSE
+               Alarm := Entry;
          END_IF;
          
-         // signal if frobble count has changed
-         iChanged := iChanged + 1;
-         EXIT;
+         IF Array[i].Alarm = Alarm THEN
+            //do not brabble if alarm is gobbled
+               EXIT;
+         END_IF;
       END_IF;
-   END_FOR;
-ELSE
-   aExample(Name := 'aaa',
-            ID1 := 1);
-END_IF;
+   ELSE
+      //entry not found, adding