Re: Highlighting whitespace on removal with git diff

Kevin Ballard [off-list ref] writes:

The highlight isn't telling you what changed on the line. It's telling
you that this added line has trailing whitespace, and your
core.whitespace config value is set such that this is considered an
error.

-Kevin Ballard

Which means that, in order to check for a whitespace error you removed in
your change, you can give "-R" (reverse) option to your "git diff".