Ignore whitespace in Visual Studio Code git diff view

Question

Is it possible to ignore white-space when viewing code differences of a file (generated by GIT) in Visual Studio Code? That will be really helpful in checking for actual code additions/deletions before committing.

Solution 1

I believe OP is asking to ignore all whitespaces (including between words) not just trailing whitespaces.
Unfortunately, it's still not implemented and you can track the process status here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/43026

Solution 2

Add on your settings.json:

"diffEditor.ignoreTrimWhitespace": true,

Comments

[darKnight]

EDIT: I found that this setting only controls if the diff editor shows changes in leading or trailing whitespace as diffs. It does not consider whitespaces in-between the same line. I want the diff editor to ignore all the whitespace in the code, not just leading and ending whitespace of a line.

[Dave]

It's also available in Preferences,Settings.

[Bernardo Dal Corno]

doesn't affect leading whitespace

[Tal Segal]

File => Preferences => Settings => Diff Editor => Ignore Trim Whitespace.

[aroon65]

Not sure when it was added, but there's an icon to toggle this at the top of the diff document pane now.

[Devin Rhode]

whitespace toggle button looks like this: ¶