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sanityinc on Nov 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cosmic Sans Neue Mono: Programming Font

Plus, as variables get added and renamed, the resulting realignment of tokens modifies lines unrelated to those changes, leading to messy diffs which degrade the effectiveness of most version control tools.

kisielk on Nov 22, 2013 [–]

Almost every diff and code review tool I've used can ignore whitespace changes.

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