"git diff" and its family of commands have "--ws-error-highlight" option to allow whitespace breakages on old and context lines painted in color.diff.whitespace color, instead of the usual "we paint breakages only on new lines", but there wasn't a configuration variable that corresponds to it.
This would be a lot closer to a series that could be acceptable, compared to the previous "it should look like this" patch. Junio C Hamano (4): t4015: split out the "setup" part of ws-error-highlight test diff.c: refactor parse_ws_error_highlight() diff.c: move ws-error-highlight parsing helpers up diff: introduce diff.wsErrorHighlight option Documentation/diff-config.txt | 6 +++ Documentation/diff-options.txt | 2 + diff.c | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- t/t4015-diff-whitespace.sh | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 4 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-) -- 2.10.1-510-g1ef781f2c1
