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From: Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Links in tables: could the plain text also look good?
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:33:07 -0500
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On 3/6/14 2:00 PM, Oleh wrote:

> I was just committing a single line change to an org-mode table into
> git, and the diff isn't good at all: the whole table appears to have
> changed. Well, not really - just a few spaces were added on each table
> line because the single new line caused a need to re-align the whole
> table.

You can tell diff to ignore whitespace-only changes by using the -w option:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-diff.html

-w
--ignore-all-space
Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores differences even if 
one line has whitespace where the other line has none.