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by jermaustin1 542 days ago
That would likely be whitespace. Most diffs have an option to compare whitespace. Your lead probably has that enabled and wants you using spaces or tabs exclusively and not mixed.

Something that VS does nicely is tells you at the bottom right what the document is using (CRLF vs LF and tabs vs spaces). Not sure how many others have that, but it is really nice.