[peeters]

Not a huge deal, but it hides the actual author of that line when you're doing a blame. I try to only change the precise lines I need to in a commit, and all of them are relevant to the commit message. That way it's usually a very quick check to see what commit added a certain line.

If I absolutely need to do some tidying in a file, I do it in a fully separate commit so that the change can not be construed to be related to the other feature.

[0x0]

Sounds like someone should implement a blame option for "ignore whitespace - show latest author with non-whitespace changes"!

[projct]

git blame -w already does this: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-blame.ht...

[binarycrusader]

Mercurial already has this as well:

  hg annotate --help
  ...
  -w --ignore-all-space    ignore white space when comparing lines
  -b --ignore-space-change ignore changes in the amount of white space
  -B --ignore-blank-lines  ignore changes whose lines are all blank

[jonhohle]

git blame -w